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Maybe there was plan -- to build new schools that would have low enrollment, which would make it seem logical for charters to eventually "co-locate" there, thus growing charters while shrinkng DCPS - and shrinking neighborhood schools.[/quote]

If that was the plan, maybe they should have told the charters about it!  The reality is that it has been an immense struggle for charters to get just the empty buildings out of DCPS/DGS, only recently has that logjam begun to break despite clear law requiring it (see the Landrieu Act, requiring charters to have first right to empty DCPS buildings).  And there is no way that DCPS is going to give up the newly renovated buildings.[/quote]

Oh, you never know what will happen - especially if DCPS gets "Chartering authority"[/quote]

That's a valid point.  But if it takes DCPS getting chartering authority to create programs that people want to send their kids to (especially low income families), then maybe that's the way it should be.  Whatever they have been doing for the past 45 years hasn't been working too well.  [/quote]

But why would it be necessary for DCPS to have chartering authority to provide a decent public school -- unless they were trying to get out of the public school administration business and get into charter school admin instead.    DCPS has had charter companies run schools - sorry, I forget which one Dunbar? ballou?  The charter folks were supposed to "turn it around" post haste by the mere power of innovative private mgt and new teachers, but it didn't work and the charter group left.

Whenever DCPS proposes charters or makes it difficult to improve neighborhood schools, I suggest you consider what their motives might be.  Instead of being incompetent, it could be the appearance of incompetence to push the city into more charters (meaning  less predicability, less proximity and additional long commutes for parents and kids) which will result in better jobs for administrators in the charter sector.[/quote]

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