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I honestly do not get your point and suspect that you are against school choice which offers greater opportunities to DC students. I have no desire to see more coordination between DCPS and DC charter schools since the result may be DCPS trying to co-opt charter schools and therefore ruining a good thing. [b]There is currently talk by some DC council members of trying to slow the growth of charters and of more coordination which I am totally against. [/b]A charter school has provided the best opportunity for my DC and for many others. I think the lottery situation will be ameliorated by more school choices. I do agree that we should should have more data open to the public though.[/quote]

This is actually something charter schools themselves are putting forth. Because the current hyper-compeition is a huge drag on their ability to advance as well, with parents switching back and forth, classes filled one year but not the next, one kind of cohort one year, a different one the next, little continuity up within the grade levels. What good does the best curriculum do you if by the time kids reach testing grades there are few that started on that curriculum? And each (charter) school grappling with huge uncertainty about future demand. Serving nobody, especially not charter schools themselves and certainly not the students.
And some will recognize this comment from the multiple times I've made it before: School hyper-competition is like cable TV; at the end of the day, all channels offer roughly the same thing, squarely targeted at the median consumer.[/quote]

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