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She hates charters with a passion and supports a plan their funding by $9k+ per child.

I think it’s true that JLG as a mayor will negatively impact charters. There is a constituency of Ward 4 and 5 parents plus WTU who believe that charters are now threatening the progress that DCPS has made. They are smart enough to mostly keep their opinions off this message board, but they want EOTP students who are peeling off for the “good” charters to be rerouted into Wells, Coolidge, etc. They’re probably right, but it’s too soon to unwind the charter school system in DC. And I say this as a gung ho DCPS parent, “low standards” and all.[/quote]

I would love to know if these Ward 4 and 5 parents are  generational AA middle class DC or highly educated white progressives with extremely young children.  If the latter, they are living in a fantasy land if they think that killing charters will force parents to send their kids to Coolidge, Roosevelt, Wells, etc.  They are also the demographic most likely to pick up and move WOTP or to VA or MD  or private when they realize that their local DCPS is failing their kid.   For years middle class AA families in DC sent their kids to affordable Catholic privates or OOB WOTP schools.  When the WOTP schools became desirable for in-bound families, thus decreasing the number of OOB slots, those same AA families embraced the charter sector.  JLG is primed to kill the charter sector.  She may have engaged with Ward 4 regular DCPS but she has avoided charters located in Ward 4.  [/quote]

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