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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new mayor needs to decide which model the city wants to run with for the sake of the kids inside DCPS schools.   Boundary changes will mean little without a strong committment to a model.

Does DC want a San Fran model, without neighborhood schools, or a Boston model, with neighborhood cluster sets, or a NYC or Denver model with neighborhood schools cum test-in gifted programs and speciality programs, or a charter-centric New Orleans model?  Fidelity to the model seems more important than the model itself.

If the new mayor and city council want to keep more neighborhood schools from dying on the vine, political leaders need to push DCPS to attract and retain neighborhood families.  [b]DCPS could, for example, start providing admins with the same sort of incentives given for raising test scores.[/b]  Think about the change that could come from offering elementary schools a five-figure bonus for each in-boundary 5th grader enrolled.

DC also needs to cap charter enrollment, offer true GT programs, test-in middle school programs and more serious test-in high school magnet programs.  [/quote]

Rhee tried this and wrong-to-right erasuregate was the resulting.

The reality is in a city with so much urban poverty, administrators have little effect without vastly more resources.   Test scores are not going to improve without radically shifting the resources so that ratios in high-poverty schools go student:teacher ratios of 10:1 or 8:1

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Agreed, but administrators have little interest in this approach -- too hard and no rush of glory for getting student scores to rise exponentially due to hotshot administrators' crazy program of teacher and principal intimidation.  They can't be heroes, so they settle for getting a paycheck, and with any luck, getting a job in the charter industry --- if they continue to help charters expand in DC[/quote]

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