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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No here is what cracks me up.  If everyone actually went to their neighborhood school DCPS would still be massively segregated because guess what DC is overwhelmingly segregated

There are no real integrated areas just areas that are in various stages of gentrifying

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+1000. Eventually, traditional DC neighborhood public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods will start to reflect the race and socio-economics of neighboring homeowners. IMO, the charters are helping because some families who wouldn't consider DCPS moved into neighborhoods and started in charters. As their neighborhoods gentrify, these families are now more likely to take a chance on their neighborhood DCPS school.

Plus, there are charters within blocks of each other that have wildly different demographics. In general, the older charters that were much more focused on providing an alternative for low-income students in lower performing schools, continue to reflect a higher at-risk, and 95% plus African American population. While newer schools that started out more diverse and offer some type of specialty program (language immersion, Montessori) are much lower at-risk and more racially integrated. There are exceptions to this of course but only a few.

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