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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But gentrification will only help schools that are being gentrified.  Yet we will probably always have concentrations of poverty, and parents who can't speak English/work the system.[/quote]
Gentrified schools have lots of econ-disadvantaged students getting a better education TODAY.  More gentrified schools = more disadvantaged kids getting better educations.

[quote=Anonymous]So why set up a system of winner-take-all, where the gentrifying schools with the savvy, pushy parents lobby for and get all the resources?[/quote]
[b]Your assumption is wrong.  Gentrifying schools do not get more resources, they get fewer resources as the school gets better.  Higher poverty and lower performing schools get significantly more resources.[/b]

[quote=Anonymous]Doesn't a system of charters, where the families who want to leave the "terrible" schools have that option, sound better?[/quote]
Yes, charters are a part of the solution because they keep middle class families in DC and increase economic integration in public schools.[/quote]

Well there must a few unaccounted for variables there.  By that logic, JKLM & Deal should have few, if any resources and Brookland, Langley, and Noyes should be rolling in them.  Yet, such is not the case.[/quote]

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