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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's from a few years ago, but the City Paper did an interesting story on the turnaround in Ward 6 and what it might mean for other wards.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/41381/dc-neighborhood-schooled/[/quote]

Interesting article.  Anyone know if Wells was still working full time when she did this?  Says she worked for the Feds but not whether she did while she did all this organizing.  It's a very different picture if she was staying home at the time and had daycare or a nanny, than if she was working full time or had zero help with her kids.

Interesting, but even the article itself poses differences between Wells and Capital Hill, and Black middle class parents in wards 5, 7 & 8.  And no real solutions to those dynamics other than basically "these parents need to get over their loyalties and apathy and do what Wells did!"  But if you acknowledge differences (and the author never mentions just how different the poverty and crime differences are too, even Capital Hill at its worse was not as bad as parts of Ward 7 & 8 then or today), what do you propose will overcome those differences?  That is key and was not addressed.[/quote]

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