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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]regarding deconcentration --seems like some of those poor kids could just be bussed to good DC schools instead of moving to the suburbs.[/quote] Problem is we're already doing that. Many, many poor kids are using the OOB process to go to schools that are better than their neighborhood school. But because we've made it our policy to concentrate poor kids in DC, they make up such a large proportion of the DC school age population that there aren't enough "good DC schools" to bus them to. (30% of all kids in DC are below the poverty line) The handful of "good" DCPS schools in DC are all 40 or 50% FARMS students. The vast majority are in the 70 and 80% range. If we simply did mandatory busing in DC, we'd just end up destroying the handful of good schools and end up with uniformly poor schools. Then instead of few decent DCPS options for poor kids we'd have none.[/quote]
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