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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So use common and show the academic ambition of public schools in other US cities, e.g. NYC, Chicago, Boston. DC could reinvent DCI as a hybrid DCPS-charter school with a different LEA.  It's been done in other cities.

If the DCPS Spanish immersion programs fed to DCI, we'd probably have a first-rate International Baccalaureate Diploma program in the city offering higher level IB Spanish within 6 or 8 years. At the rate we're going, we're not going to get that from DCI for, say, 20 years. The strongest Spanish students are sprinkled around in middle school and high school. Not impressive.[/quote]

Your comment suggests that DCPS immersion students would take DCI to the next level of academic achievement.  Do you have evidence that the DCPS immersion programs produce better outcomes than the Charter immersion programs?  I guess a McFarland-DCI comparison could provide that answer in a few years.  [/quote]

Oyster obviously produces far better outcomes than the Spanish charter immersion programs for everything - ELA, math and, yea, Spanish.  The program is much better established than the charter programs, enrolls more high SES families and offers a lottery for native speakers.  It's a no brainer.  Are you new in town?
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Oyster is ONE school. Are you only lobbying for Oyster students to go to DCI?  No, you or whoever else has posted this idea is lobbying for all DCPS immersion students to have slots held at DCI.

Aside from the fact that current charter admissions policies don't allow to hold slots for specific students when it's not part of a feeder design (and that prohibition exists for good reason - why repeat the IB/OOB injustices that DCPS currently represents?), what needs to happen is DCPS figure out why Oyster is so successful and what has to be shifted to improve Adams.  What can Adams and the language-focused DCPS high schools learn from DCI?

And although this poster's proposal is not going to happen and shouldn't happen that way for good reasons, I am also interested in what data you have that overall, across DCPS bilingual programs, where is the evidence that funneling those students to DCI would produce better outcomes overall?  Because, again, this is not just about Oyster.  Which is a no brainer - are you new in town PP?[/quote]

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