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Reply to "Revised Boundary Recommendations to be released on or about June 13"
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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. DCPS could, for example, start providing admins with the same sort of incentives given for raising test scores. 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] What problem are you trying to solve? What is wrong with the current assignment method that would be fixed by a new model?[/quote] There are too few decent by-right walkable schools, and no serious test-in programs in the city. Most schools Cap Hill remain bad news despite skyrocketing property values, leaving parents to fight over proximity prefence to School Within a School, a small high SES bastion. You see the morning Yu Ying bus picking up 4 year olds, and hear neighbors talking about moving to MoCo after striking out in the lottery several years running. The current assignment method leads to OOB dominance of most schools on the Hill, with no recourse for middle school-bound parents beyond terrific lottery luck coupled with a not-so-great commute to a program without strong facilites or meaningful ability grouping (Latin, BASIS, soon DCI). Upper NW parents don't have these concerns - weak city committment to the neighborhood schools model works well enough for them. [/quote]
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