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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
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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Ward 4 currently has no middle school. The building currently occupied by Roosevelt during renovation is a former middle school. So, the opportunity exists to open a new middle school directly next to the renovated Roosevelt. Whether that middle school should be a city-wide application school, a high performing neighborhood school modeled after Deal, or just one more low-performing DCPS option remains to be discussed. But, clearly a middle school -- preferably one that is high-performing -- is part of the solution to revitalizing Roosevelt.
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