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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's why choice sets are a solution in search of a problem:

There are 139 schools in DCPS. At 127 (give or take) of them, every student who wishes to attend may attend. Boundaries don't matter. There are 12 schools that don't take every student that applies. Of those, seven take no students at all in the OOB lottery.

"Choice sets" are only about divvying up seats at those 12 schools. At every other school, everyone who wants to can go.

If the problem were that seats were currently allocated inefficiently, then choice sets would be a good solution. It's always a good strategy to get people to make their own choices to get higher utilization of assets. But seats aren't allocated inefficiently now. At those 12 schools, every seat is full.[/quote]

True and correct. I tried to have a confrontation about the same line with Mary Filardo - the chief of the 21 Century Fund advising the DME - on Tuesday night but she could not understand the point, she repeated as if she was in a tranche that "diversity improves academic outcomes" , "not everybody are happy with their neighborhood school".. I gave up. [/quote]

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