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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]certainly not going to happen anytime soon---none of the existing charters (unless they are hard up for kids) will do this.[/quote]

How would neighborhood preference help anyone when applied to schools that are underenrolled? [/quote]
It could actually be a big help to the underenrolled schools themselves. Remember, what the Post article discusses is giving preference in cases where charters take over a recently-closed DCPS neighborhood school. So a population that needs a school meets a school that needs a population.[/quote]

1.  Recently-closed schools were generally closed because they were underpopulated, so there is not necessarily this neighborhood population of which you speak; and,

2.  Many of the shuttered DCPS schools were not recently closed.  Many were closed a long time ago and sit very close to another school (or vacant school building that has itself closed due to underpopulation).  
What neighborhood population is seeking to fill all of those buildings?  Should we just let them sit while charter schools continue to teach our students in makeshift spaces like we are doing now?  [/quote]

I agree. I have gotten the impression that DCPS has/had many schools within blocks of either. Exactly how close do public schools need to be to each other?? :roll:  Neighborhood preference is a bad idea for charters.[/quote]

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