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[quote=Anonymous]1. Ellington should expand to middle school. That would take some of the crowding out of overenrolled middle schools, give new opportunities to kids who don't like their IB middle school, and help train kids so DESA doesn't need to take as many from outside the district.

2. Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, Oyster either also to MacFarland and Roosevelt or keep Adams and route it to Roosevelt. Want a dual-language school? Get the dual-language feeder pattern.

3. Shepherd and Lafayette to New North and Coolidge. For the people who will say there isn't enough room, make just 6th and 7th grades in New North and create an 8th grade academy in the massively underenrolled Coolidge HS. If and when we get to a point where so many IB families are sending their kids to New North and Coolidge that it's going to be overcrowded, we can have a big party and also redistrict at that point, possibly shifting a few schools to Brookland and Dunbar.

4. End OOB feeder rights. If you get into a school for elementary, you're there through 5th and you have to lottery for middle school; same thing if you get into a middle school via the lottery and want to continue on to HS. If DCPS wants to compromise, it could give a lottery preference for kids who attended a feeder school, but still only take as many kids as the school has room for.

5. If you enroll in a school as IB and you move somewhere else in the District, you can choose to stay the rest of the school year but after that you have to go to your IB school or do the lottery. No more principal's discretion and a lot more audits. If neighborhood schools are important, the priority should be for people who actually live in the neighborhood, not people who lived there at one point and now live somewhere else. Homeless children and kids in foster care of course have additional protections under federal law and may be able to stay when other kids could not. [/quote]

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