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It is premature to start putting too many eggs in the Van Ness basket.  The short and long-term academic success of the school will depend on a multitude of factors, including teacher qualifications and experience. the principal, specials and afterschool programming, the funds the PTA is able to raise and contribute, the number of IEP(SN) students, the number of OOB students, etc.  Schools like Ludlow-Taylor would seem to be poised to succeed and serve their neighborhood and yet fail to do so year after year.  DCPS really has to think outside the box here as the optics are not great in terms of spending millions of dollars to open a school with only a few classrooms initially operational. [/quote]

Perhaps DCPS is thinking "outside the box" but not in the way you'd expect.  Maybe DCPS is helping the charter movement, and is purposely frustrating engaged, gentrifying parents.  This way, parents will actually be grateful when they are eventually presented with a different opportunity -- new charter schools to replace the DCPS schools in neighborhoods where both home prices and the numbers of small children are rising rapidly.

DCPS leadership may not know how to improve education for all children, but they sure know that engaged parents are willing to fight to get their kids the best education they can. Could be they are putting obstacles in your path now, so that when you're presented with a charter-only option it will look pretty good compared to the alternative of selling your home and moving to the burbs.

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You are giving DCPS WAY too much credit by stating they are "thinking"  The problem is they aren't thinking at all.[/quote]

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