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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t now anything about these schools, but why people do not support this? Is it because  it will increase the at risk % at their school?[/quote]

For some that's a reason, but there are other reasons.

*They don't want the bad commute and logistics of their kids in two different locations. 
*They don't believe that DCPS will come through with the implementation and support that is being vaguely implied but never explicitly promised. 
*Miner continually has leadership problems and DCPS never gives it a good principal, so that would need to change first. 
*The Peabody-Watkins cluster doesn't function well, and the other cluster in North Carolina that DME hand-picked as an example also has poor results.

The higher at-risk percentage can be accomplished with a lottery set-aside or preference and it can be accomplished with boundary changes. Or at least, DME has yet to disprove those two assertions. So the question is why make people's logistics so bad when the same income targets could be reached in other ways.[/quote]

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