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Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has [u]yearly[/u] enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much. [/quote]

The stat makes perfect sense - 2008 recession.
Law firms imploded.
People who thought they could afford private decided to "try out DCPS" to see if _[insert school name] ____    works for their kid.[/quote]

You can't leave out gentrification and displacement of AA as a reason for this shift.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-the-district-gentrification-means-widespread-displacement-report-says/2019/04/26/950a0c00-6775-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.8b9e5aea737b

"In most American cities, gentrification has not pushed low-income residents out of the city they call home, according to a study.

But Washington is not most cities.

[b]In the District, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2000 to 2016.[/b]

“For all the talk of gentrification happening in cities all over the country, what we found is that it really isn’t,” said Myron Orfield, director of the institute, founded at the University of Minnesota law school to investigate growing social and economic disparities in American cities. [b]“Washington is one of the few places in the country where real displacement is actually occurring. It’s quite rare.”[/b][/quote]

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