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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would sending low income AA kids from Amidon to Van Ness serve them better? People keep posting that somehow that will raise their test scores. [/quote]

If the FARMs rate is below 35% and ideally below 20%, studies have shown the low-income kids will do better. http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/10/poor-learn-more-in-low-poverty-schools/

The trick is figuring out how to take 2 neighborhoods (SW and Near SE) where there are a lot of kids in poverty and come out with a school that is at least 2/3 not poor.  It will take lots of things:

* enrollment by a very high percentage of middle/upper class families in the area
* creating programs that attract richer families from out of bounds (of course those same programs attract *all* families)
* inclusive boundaries--not putting all the poor kids in Amidon and all the rich ones at Van Ness
* building more market-rate housing in SW and Near SE that is attractive to families.  Townhouses or 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.  Due to inclusionary zoning, there will also be an affordable component to anything that's built.  Eventually, if public housing is redeveloped with a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of market rate to affordable, that would make a difference too.  Greater density on the sites and building housing on some of the city-owned sites in the area would allow that to happen without displacement or loss of affordability.  But that would take buyin from the mayor, office of planning, DCHA, and lots of others.

Plus, if the VNPG is right, all their teachers will be vetted by the PTA and are guaranteed to be amazing. That can't hurt.[/quote]

Better start organizing a van ness PTA[/quote]

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