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[quote=Anonymous]I wish people were thinking about this issue more broadly and not just in the context of this one small school.  I am very much in favor of city-wide schools IF those schools are really specialized magnet-type schools that offer unique programs to students who are well-chosen to their missions.  Most other cities have a school system that actively tries to cater to the different needs of its students instead of trying to force all its students into one model.  In DC, we have the charter system, which is specialized but is only allowed to use "luck" as a selection criteria, so it doesn't do a very good job of matching students with schools.

DCPS could create a system of city-wide schools that uses something other than "luck" as a selection criteria.  What is troubling about the path they are taking with SWS and CHM is that they are trying to match the charter school system - as others have said make these schools their own "charter-like" schools, instead of use their latitude to actually create a new kind of specialty school that goes beyond using "luck" to create school communities.  If DCPS commits too far down this road, it will set back an effort to create a real, thriving magnet school system in the city, delaying the time it takes for DC to bring itself up to the quality of other urban systems.  Having all school choice come down to location or "luck" ax it is right now with DCPS and the charter schools is not a long-term solution for fixing the system.  Simply perpetuating the "luck" model in DCPS is not really helping the system as a whole.  [/quote]

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