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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never understood the goal of having the elc in that location. It had an at risk preference but the nearby elementary schools are decent and at risk families would have a hard time going cross town for prek, especially if they had an older kid at a different school.   [/quote]

I think 
a) DCPS owned the building and didn't want to give it to a charter so they had to do something with it
b) nearby schools had PK waitlists
c) pre-pandemic, there was more demand for PK downtown--yes lots of parents with office jobs, but also lower-paying things at GW or food service or security guards or retail....or families wanted their kids in a safer/more economically diverse environment and had relatives who could take them downtown 
d) I don't think they really cared if they filled the at-risk slots, but they wanted to have the preference. I think it's a good thing to prioritize at-risk families that want to go there, while keeping it economically diverse. Certainly if they really wanted to help at-risk families there are other ways they could have spent the money (housing vouchers plus services, free public transit, more ERAP, utility assistance, higher TANF, subsidizing child care that operates on evenings and weekends when lots of people are working low-wage jobs) but this let them appear equity focused without turning off upper-income people.[/quote]

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