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I think implementation is the main   In order to keep that tap of students flowing, you need to create incentives for Ward 3 families to choose to send their kids there; for the most part, that means duplicating the entirety of Wilson's environment.  Th the programs at the school.[/quote]
This sounds clearly incorrect.  If the parents are actively choosing, then by definition there must be meaningful differences.  [/quote]

I think you are correct that the "choice" would be difficult, because the result is really a forced choice for those Ward 3 families affected by the new boundaries:  you're forced to go to Roosevelt, or you can choose to try for a charter, or you can choose to move out of town.  That does kind of suck for them.  But, going with the flow of the question:  if the goal of the policy is to create a new Wilson in the middle of the city, then you've got to capture proficient students in some manner, and to do that you have to force some of them to be directed to the new school that you want to create.

The goal is to have an "anchor" of proficient students that will make Roosevelt of higher academic quality than is currently available to most of the city.  And, now that I'm thinking about it, that "anchor" of Ward 3 families is probably not enough to make it successful.  Either the affected Ward 3 families will kill the policy politically, or they will choose to leave the city.  So, how about some additional incentive, and a more solid "anchor" of proficient students to feed into Roosevelt:  create a new, application-only middle school somewhere in the middle of the city, that would feed into Roosevelt.  This new middle school could draw proficient students from throughout the city.  It would automatically be a great school.  And, those students, graduating from the new middle, would have a meaningful choice:  go to Roosevelt, a charter, or apply to Banneker and Walls.  I think this would strengthen the quality of Roosevelt, and its desirability, pretty quickly.

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