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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New deal, new Wilson, new middle school...
Do we see a trend? Ward 3 is getting a lot of snazzy upgrades, wonder what ward 8 is getting? Minor fixes.

Shows where the money's going.[/quote]

There is a serious mismatch between the schools that DCPS has, and the schools that people want. School choice exists in DC, and it dramatically demonstrates this mismatch.

55% of the kids who attend DCPS schools in Ward 3 don't live in Ward 3. All of the DCPS schools in Ward 3 are over capacity. In the rest of the city, 36.5% of schools are seriously under capacity -- defines as less than 60% full. Of 20 schools in Ward 8, 13 are less than 60% full.

Ward 3 is the only ward that has no charter schools. In addition to their per-pupil funding, charter schools get $3,000 per pupil per year as a facilities allowance. So the charter schools in aggregate are receiving close to $90 million per year for facilities.

There is a legitimate debate about how best to address this mismatch. Do you build more of the schools that everyone wants -- charters and Ward 3 schools? This seems silly when there are so many empty ones. Or do you try to make people want the schools that exist? Sounds reasonable, but how exactly do you do that?

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