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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inclusiveness means they serve all students.

When they started there were both more poor students and more students with disabilities. Both populations have dwindled.

Same thing has happened at Wash Latin's middle school. In response its Board is currently planning a second campus to be located EOTR.

Basis on the other hand stated in its application and at the hearing that they were only looking at possible locations in Wards 1-6.

See the difference? [/quote]

Of course the populations have dwindled steadily in what amounts to a liberal arts GT program in a public school system without any before high school. Almost any well-educated parent who's lived in this city for a decade or more could have seen that one coming.

BASIS can't end multi-generational poverty in DC or anywhere else, but it can help dozens of poor DC kids reach for the stars, mainly by providing them a peer group that's predominantly high SES.  I'm thrilled that BASIS is only looking at locations outside Wards 7 and 8. I wouldn't have gone to a great college, on a Pell grant, if most of my high school classmates hadn't been from upper middle-class families, unlike my own.  No way, no how.  I hear this a lot from colleagues and friends.

Come on, Latin's board isn't PLANNING to open a second campus EOTR; its members are merely talking about opening a second campus somewhere.

The difference is that BASIS isn't afraid to differentiate" (read track) aggressively, at least for science and math.  Latin is. 
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