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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question is---does DCPS really believe the consultants' "vision" or is the Gray administration's real goal to eliminate higher SES HH participation in schools EOTP so that the vestiges of the Marion-Barry DCPS patronage system can continue to run the schools  (and collect a paycheck) without those interfering and demanding high SES parents asking for competence and quality?

That's why WOTP would get a pass under this scenario---DCPS Central office long ago gave up battling the parents in those neighborhoods and granted those schools "autonomous status".    The entrenched bureaucracy gets to continue  (with all the self-dealing, "friends and families contracting and consulting contracts" that have characterized DCPS over the last 30 years) while cloaking itself in terms like "maximizing socioeconomic integration"---knowing full-well that the real result will be flight from the EOTP  DCPS system by higher SES families.  Forcing the "economic integration" policies onto the charter school system would weaken the attractiveness charter schools---which have been the other thorn in the side of the DCPS bureaucracy.  Maybe the consultants should take off their rose-colored glasses and start looking at the underlying motivations of the people who hired them.[/quote]

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