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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a school filled almost entirely with families who live near or below the poverty level, how do you make it succeed?

More money?[/quote]

If you are the Deputy Mayor of Education, you institute "controlled choice" in which some kids will be moved from their gentrifying neighborhood school to a nearby low SES school.  Then you hope that parents whose kids have suffered the same fate will band together to make the new school work, so they can avoid the dreaded move to the suburbs. Sort of like a resettlement program, in which you get to choose between being forced to a questionable school or voluntarily moving to the burbs.

The DME is betting you'll band together around the troubled school, which will result in that school's scores going up and then DCPS will proclaim that reform is a success - scores are rising all over DC!

Meanwhile, real estate values will rise in your neighborhood, making homeowners happy, while pushing the low SES adults and their low scoring kids out to PG county. Then the scores at your "controlled choice" school will continue to rise, which DCPS will take complete responsibility for (At last -- when there's good news!)[/quote]

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