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Take a kid out of Barry Farm, and put his family up in a townhouse in Loudon County in a neighborhood where everyone is middle-class, and the school has 2% FARMS students, and that kid is going to do better. Obviously. [/quote]

This method was initially tried 36 years ago, and is the initial data regarding relieving intergenerational poverty through deconcentration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautreaux_Project

Thanks for the link. This is one of the rare instances where the results of academic research produce a completely intuitive result.

[quote]If the public housing had been depopulated in a controlled manner, and residents directed to suburbs so that no new concentrations of poverty were created in the suburbs, the positive results of the Gautreaux project might have held.[/quote]

Housing choice vouchers, along with housing counseling which could be provided from DCDOH, would be the perfect vehicle to avoid the kind of rapid migration that swamps suburban school districts.

It also casts suspicion on those who still so desperately want to keep poor kids (and their parents) locked up in the urban core.

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