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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many families would choose the suburbs if it weren't for charters....middle class families are staying in the city more because of charters, even if they can't afford inner Cap Hill or Ward 3. [/quote]
Right but there are charters where the % low income is way below the overall school age population in DC (YY, LAMB, MV...) -- so how is that helping? In effect these are private schools paid for by taxpayers.[/quote]
YY 11%, LAMB 24%, MV 28%
my DCPS title 1: 70%[/quote]

Together those 3 schools educate 1,875 children, or 4% of all charter students. Yes they should all do more to recruit diverse students, both economically and racially. But sending those students back to their neighborhood schools, given that those students live all over the city, isn't going to change the diversity very much.

If you look at both sectors, as of 2018, 48% of charter students were at-risk, compared to 44% of DCPS students (charters also enroll far more adult students, but those are excluded when looking at 'at risk' students.

DCPS does serve more ELL students: 7.8% charters, 14.6% DCPS.

The sectors are almost dead even when it comes to the percentage of total students with disabilities, but charters serve a higher percentage of students with Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 IEPs, and the sectors are equal for Level 4 (most need).
https://www.dcpcsb.org/blog/at-risk-special-ed-students[/quote]

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