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[quote=Anonymous]Don't tell the Century Foundation, but one study of 850 students in a school system of more than 140,000 over a 6 year period is not exactly overwhelming evidence that a low-income student will necessarily perform substantially better when surrounded by high-SES students.

By the way, contrary to what you may believe, there are not "a lot" of poor kids living in Near SE (Navy Yard).  Capper/Carrollsburg has been replaced by Capitol Quarter and nearby high-end condos and apartments, which are out of reach of the working poor and far from optimal for most UMC families with school-aged children.  What happens to Greenleaf, Syphax and James Creek now that the HOPE VI program is dead-in-the-water holds the key to the future of Amidon and Jefferson, particularly when the DME cuts the feed to Wilson.  Call me pessimistic, but the days when there will be enough high-SES families south of the Eisenhower Freeway to compromise two-thirds of the student bodies at Amidon and Van Ness (about 500 students) are still years away.[/quote]

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