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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:08, I give you two other DCPSs one is Dekalb County Public School System and the other is Duval County Public School System.  Middle-class don't have enough babies.  Therefore, if we only depended on that group we would be down to a set of schools that would probably be all charters.[/quote]

I'll have to see the stats on DeKalb Co. From what I can tell the schools with very little poverty do well; the one's with lots of poverty are the worst in Georgia. As you say, the middle-class doesn't have enough babies, that means we need to either bus poor kids into the suburbs, or gradually reduce the number of poor kids living in the city. Ideally you'd do this by busing poor kids in the city out to better performing middle-class schools in the suburbs.

Obviously in the US in 2012, that's a non-starter.

Which leaves us helping the poor folks who live in DC to get jobs--which will overwhelmingly be in the suburbs. And letting housing prices rise to gradually shrink the number of DC's poor through attrition.[/quote]

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