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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are simply too few high-SES students in DcpS to move the needle on the achievement gap regardless of how some social planner distrubutes them.[/quote]

What will be interesting is how DCPS deals with the rapid pace of gentrification in the city (apparently the highest in the country).  I'm assuming they look at demographic trends when planning boundary revisions.[/quote]

You don't have to wait to find out.  The demographic trends were available in 2005, when elementary schools throughout the city were being planned for expansion.  But, by the time of last boundary review, the Deal/Wilson overcrowding crisis was a problem even then, and left to fester.  That crisis will continue to fester for more years, until the next boundary review or the City Council steps in when all the classes are 40 kids.  In the meantime, a rapidly gentrifying area like Shaw is being denied its own neighborhood middle school.  So, no need to wait to be a cynic.

In the somewhat-bright side, Kaya Henderson is gone, so who knows maybe the new players will push the Mayor to do better than she's done so far.[/quote]

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