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[quote=Anonymous]Jefferson Academy never ever had any sort of selective admissions in its plan.  The students who wanted to go there were supposed to write some lame essay about themselves and that was it.  I think very few wrote it and were let in anyway.   They came in at about the same proficiency that they have scored in the CAS.

Dcps absolutely refused to do any sort of feeder pattern adjustment or selctive admissions situation or seed program or anything that would have gotten that entering proficiency level up to a point where largish numbers of proficient/advanced students would choose the school.   Brent parents let them know what it would take to get some buy in before during and after Jefferson Academy was set up and they ignored it and wrote off our feedback as being whiny.

Good for the students attending Jefferson Academy because it is an improvement over the regular Jefferson Program but it is a long way from capturing the attention of lots of students who are coming from a solid primary program.

Tommy Wells needs significant poliical backing from a majority of Ward 6 to tackle these issues.  Somebody organize loudly and let him know there is a large enough group across all the Capitol Hill to have his back. [/quote]

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