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a.) what DCPS central office does is what DCPS central office does, and what BASIS does is what BASIS does.

b.) ALL public schools must abide by the laws, whether BASIS, DCPS, et cetera.  If DCPS were abiding by the laws, and that means, meeting the needs of *all* students, regardless of whether they can or can't afford private schools, whether or not they are special needs, gifted and talented, or whatever.   Clearly DCPS is not meeting that need, which is driving the huge explosion in charters.  So before we go carrying on about what needs Charters are or aren't meeting, stop and go back and look at the core problem - it's DCPS.  It's not about "gentrifying parents" and which schools they send their kids to.  Gentrifying parents sending their kids to neighborhood schools isn't going to magically change DCPS, as everything else will just stay the same, unless change happens elsewhere also. 
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Are you saying Rhee and Henderson's school reform is a failure?

That's likely  --the achievement gap has widened on their watch, after all.

But the Ward three schools are successful -- always have been, no matter who the superintendent has been. This suggests that it's the kids in the schools that make them so successful, not the administration.

As there is more gentrification, it's logical that that success would spread to other parts of town - if the parents put their kids in the neighborhood schools.

Then again, parents could play the lottery, drive across town and try to change the laws.[/quote]

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