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[quote=Anonymous][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?[b] Sounds reasonable, but how exactly do you do that?
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You bribe the best teachers from Ward 3 to teach at the worst schools. You double their salaries and give them curricular freedom for 5 years. You set up community trusts so that neighborhood efforts to improve facilities are matched by government money. You make everything transparent. [/quote]

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