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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is why the proposals floating around of high quotas for disadvantaged students and wholescale boundary shifts or citywide lotteries don't make sense because they don't consider creating and maintaining an adequate critical mass for it to work. If you were to take the JKLMs and kick all of the current students out and replace them with the most disadvantaged students from the city, their performance would be no better than it was in the "failing" schools they came from. The JKLMs would then be the "failing" schools. However, if you accommodate not-to-exceed 20% disadvantaged in the successful schools, and structure non-disadvantaged and higher performing overflow by putting them into other schools, managing the numbers so that there's enough critical mass, and go school by school by the demographics and numbers, it would have far better chance of working.[/quote]

There's nothing yet even approaching a proposal, let alone policy.  Thus far it's all theory and idea with a healthy dose of conjecture.

And the reason it won't get much further is that it's impossible at this point to "put" or "replace" anyone anywhere.  Thanks to charters, choice is built in.  Parents will walk en masse if they're forced into this school or that.

It's not impossible to make socioeconomic diversity attractive.  Charters have done that.  DCPS needs to figure it out.[/quote]

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