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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dorothy Height is in the center of a demographic explosion in 16th Street Heights and Petworth. It was a charter, which ended up losing that status due to founder corruption. But the area needs schools, so DCPS took it over. It doesn't have a catchment area, partly because even though the area has many students it is surrounded by other schools (there are thousands of students within a couple blocks of Upshur Park every day between ES, MS, and HS and swing space and charter and DCPS are there too).[/quote]

I think DCPS took over Height and Excel so the buildings wouldn't go to other charters.

I agree that it would make sense to phase out the city-wide nature of Height and re-draw boundaries in the area. Another option would be to just have it offer PK and make it the IB preK option for a cluster of nearby schools that have IB PK waitlists, or make it a citywide Spanish PK3-5 immersion school that feeds into MacFarland (basically, compete with DCI feeders).[/quote]

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