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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked the idea of an at-risk minimum, whatever happened to that proposal?[/quote]

The problem is there are too few good schools, and way too many at-risk students.

Total DCPS and charter enrollment (minus adult learners) is 86-87,000 students. Fully 39,000 are at risk.

The preference, as tested by the lottery folks, would help 600 of the 39,000.

Ten percent of seats at high performing schools would only help another couple thousand. [/quote]

It still seems like a good idea, to help 600 kids.  That's a lot more than zero.[/quote]

It's Waiting for Superman.

I'm all for doing it too, but that can't be all we do. More services, more staff, more funding, more social workers, more family support, more jobs for all these families is needed. [/quote]

I hope it might have a follow-on effect as sibling preference was conferred on siblings of those receiving the preference as time passed.

It would be nice if this eased the overwhelm at the EOTP and EOTR schools.  [/quote]

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