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[quote]I don't think it is a move backwards, I just think it is plan to move those of us to the back.[/quote]

One more thing: if you're concerned about poor kids "being left behind" the answer is to fight like mad to get as much market-rate housing built in DC as you can, and encourage middle-class families with kids to live here. Because poor kids are going to succeed to the extent that they're the minority in their schools (and not racial minority, but economic). If DC can't get to that point, the overwhelming majority of poor kids in DC are going to continue to fail.

(PS: Can't tell you how much I hate that "being left behind" crap, anyway. As a thought experiment: if you have a city with 100,000 residents, and none of them are above the poverty line, and you somehow manage to convince 100,000 middle- and upper-middle class non-residents to move in and become residents, the original 100,000 have not been "left behind".  They are, in fact, significantly better off than they were.)[/quote]

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