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They will just make a stop on the CH bus. The Latin instagram/Facebook for the last couple weeks have been focusing on Cooper and I would venture to guess by the photos posted the demographics at Cooper will only be slightly more reflective of the city than the original. [Neither of which reflect the demographics of the city.]

And the problem is? If city politicians and ed leaders want a different demographic look to Latin Cooper, they're very free to push a full menu of honors classes in our Ward 6 DCPS middle schools, along with the pan Ward 6 DCPS middle school many of us have been hoping for since Fenty was still in. 
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This.  It is maddening that DCPS refuses to build a Deal/Wilson quality pyramid in Ward 6, with the result being that a few charter schools are swamped by Ward 6 applications.  And there is very little  that those charters can do to stem the tide of those applications and the disproportionate Ward 6 demographic results.  The equitable access preference, while helpful, doesn't really achieve geographic and widespread demographic diversity since only 20% of the kids in the city (as opposed to within the DCPS system) qualify for the fairly narrow at-risk definition.  There are many, many middle and working class households in the District who do not live in a performing school pyramid, are not low-income enough to qualify for an equitable access preference, and lack the education choices available to upper income homeowners on the Hill.  That's who is really being hurt by DCPS refusing to serve higher income families on the Hill.[/quote]

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