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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters can essentially pick their students through barriers to entry and subtle (and not-so-subtle) signals to parents who (consciously or not) choose to self-segregate.

Just the fact that they get more engaged families (who exercise choice) makes them stronger than your typical neighborhood DCPS.[/quote]

It's hard to know whether some of these are deliberate. The fact that getting to some charter campuses without a car is practically impossible may be a screening device, but  It may also be that real estate near public transit is just too pricy for newer charters.

The decision to have aftercare prices of $350+ per month per child, howver, is definitely sending a message.

Certain buzzwords in the mission statement (immersion, Montessori, progressive, expeditionary learning) tend to attract middle class parents. That may be moot though. Those schools are full, and most new charters coming online are just expansions of existing charters or national charter chains. There are no new LAMBs opening, because everyone has figured out that you can't meet the requirements (special ed, lcentral location) on the current budget. They can't compete with the economies of scale of the school district with just one campus.[/quote]

Non title 1 DCPS schools have aftercare around $350+ too. $350 is not bad. Now $450-$550 is steep. [b]Charters don’t get free facilities so can’t afford to subsidize aftercare.[/b][/quote]

neither do DCPS aftercares.[/quote]

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