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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about language preference? I don't think it's fair that my friend who doesn't speak two words of Spanish sends her kids to Mundo Verde, while I am a native speaker and my husband speaks Spanish as well won't get our DC in there this year for sure. [/quote] It's time for the School Reform Act to be amended to allow charter schools, at their discretion, to be selective in admissions and to offer preferences to certain classes of students. It's wasteful of scarce public resources to have kids lottery into schools that are not good fits, only to transfer to other schools in subsequent years. Also, the financial incentives for admitting at-risk kids, $2,000 per kid, I think, will encourage the creation of charters to serve that demographic. With 50% of the kids attending public school in DC at-risk, the best strategy is probably to create charters tailored to serving the needs of at-risk kids. [/quote]
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