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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well you all need to think of another plan then - because this isn't sustainable.
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Shouldnt DCPS help develop a plan for schools with no space?[/quote]

What makes you think they aren't? This is on DCPS and the principals. Push them for a solution. You have 10 months to figure it out.[/quote]

I know they arent because our principal has made it clear they are not and that it will be completely up to the schools to find a resolution . In fact, DCPS seems oblivious and/or ambivalent to the amount of overcrowding at some of yhese schools.[/quote]

[b]So ask DCPS to shrink your school's boundaries. [/b]The schools don't have to be overcrowded.
Also, ask your principal if he or she took any OOB kids this year. I bet the answer's yes. Key made 17 spaces available for OOB kids in K and up in the lottery. Hyde-Addison had 10 spaces for OOB kindergarteners in the lottery, and made waitlist offers for grades 1-5 as well. Ross made waitlist offers for every grade but 3rd. Marie Reed took a bunch too, but they'll have art space soon. Stoddert is the exception. [/quote]

That ship has sailed; next.[/quote]

Not sailed. Recommendation #35 from the DME indicates DCPS should look at all schools each year and do a boundary review if any "has been utilized at 90 percent or more and has had an in-boundary percentage of enrollment greater than 75 percent for three consecutive years" (or is underenrolled).

Politically, it would be hard to redistrict. But if people are so unhappy with giant class sizes and no room for extras, then they should be open to a boundary adjustment...or at least understand that by being unwilling to change boundaries, they are forcing a situation where the school is overcrowded.

I also have to wonder what DCPS wants to do with the Fillmore building. It's listed on the "school profiles" page, which makes me wonder if #29 of the DME's recommendations would allow Fillmore to be converted to a school:

"When DCPS needs capacity for in-zone students in a particular attendance zone, then DCPS may require a DCPS city-wide school — lottery or selective — located within the attendance zone to:
• Relocate to provide capacity for students in a boundary;
[b]• Convert to a neighborhood school and offer a non-specialized strand;
• Convert to a neighborhood school and pair with a non-specialized school to offer the
traditional grade level program; or[/b]
• Provide neighborhood priority in citywide lottery."

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