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[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]
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.

Not entirely true. Brent may get less cash in Title I funding these days, but the parents raise at least 3x that amount each year and those are funds they can use any way they like.

Moreover, Brent (to use one of your examples) is well on it's way to having less than 5% FARMS. I'd be surprised if by 2014 there are 25 children who are "benefiting" from this glorious gentrification.[/quote]

Np here-- but didn't Brent used to have really high FARMS?  Even rather recently?  so it was needing more taxpayer money in the past and now it will be needing less-- and that moeny can instead go to other schools with greater need? and in the meanwhile, all teh kids there, whether non-FARMS or FARMS are getting a good, general, public education.  So what is the problem?  Rich people on Cpaitol Hill should stop attending their neighborhood school because that is taking up the spots of kids OOB?  Only in DC are people criticized for attending their neighborhood school![/quote]

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