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For a school to be a successful magnet high school it has to have two things: exceptionally good teaching / academics and very good students.

Without one or the other, it doesn't act as a magnet. DC hasn't REALLY tried magnets at all of these schools. Some of them, yes. Not all.

If DC wanted a real magnet that could actually succeed & be diverse (and have a positive knock on effect on middle schools), they could make an actually selective -- but guaranteed entry for feeders -- track to the IB program at Eastern (w/ a minimum criteria so that if not enough kids meet the criteria the first year, the classes are just smaller.) Guarantee admission for every kid from every school that feeds to Eastern that meets the minimum requirement (and it has to be real -- 4s on PARCC or some equivalent) + lottery entry for anyone else. Guarantee that they'll have real IB level classes & supports for a 10 year pilot program. I would bet my house that the school would succeed with 10 years and Stuart-Hobson, Elliot-Hine and Jefferson would see massive upticks in IB buy-in.
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This would be similar to what DCPS did years ago with the Wilson academies program  to attract IB families into staying at Wilson instead of peeling off for private.  This new WOTP high school is a bandaid on the larger problem of there not being an academically strong general ed HS (as opposed to Walls/Banneker) in the east side of the city.
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