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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowsers going to announce a proximity preference for families living 0.5 mile from a charter.  Will start in SY 18.[/quote]

As if schools like YY and Basis aren't hard enough to get into already.

This will benefit the families in gentrifying neighborhoods East of the Park and West of the Anacostia.  It won't help poorer students at all.[/quote]

And that is ABSOLUTELY the biggest problem with this proposal.  It literally puts DC on the road to replicating the same problems with DCPS and people clamoring to be IB to Deal and Wilson with charters.  I know for now the proposal is the whole .5 miles, but that is the start of it.

Every single thing Bowser and PCSB do to DECREASE the options for families in neighborhoods nowhere near ANY school they'd want to send their kid to defeats the purpose of making charters "city-wide" and purely by lottery (aside from sibling, founder and staff preferences).  That purpose being trying to make charter schools truly accessible to anyone.  Well-resourced families living 2 blocks from the school have literally the same chances as low-income families living way across town but willing to make trip in name of better educational options for their kids.

The fact that better-resourced families can't get an advantage in admissions drives many of them absolutely nuts.  But giving into those folks is awful.  [/quote]

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