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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say we don't need more HRCSs.

What we actually need is fewer of them, because the proliferation of charters means that fewer and fewer will have good options for a good-to-excellent by-right school. But it's too hard and not fair to backtrack now, and I see how we got here. Still I think it is the wrong direction. I don't claim to have solutions, just sharing my thoughts.

I should also note that I mean "we" as a city. Not "we" as a frustrated NW or up-and-coming NE parent with one or two cars, stable jobs, and a so/so in-boundary.

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I don't agree.  Long before HRCS, DC had very few good-to-excellent by-right schools.  Most of the improvement we've seen in DCPS, especially the dramatic turn arounds in schools like Deal, Brent, Maury, Powell etc . . . has happened over the past 10 year, after charter schools began to come onto the scene.

Given that, it's hard for me to see how charter schools are causing a reduction in good local public schools.

Can you name a school that was good before charters and now isn't?[/quote]

Correlation doesn't equal causality. Test scores are correlated with income, and more middle and upper income parents are staying in the city, so test scores have risen at the schools you have cited.  Now, if you argue that those patents are lured by the (usually forlorn) hope that they will get into a charter, maybe so.[/quote]

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