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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Academic research concluded that throwing money at poor schools will only do so much to close the achievement gap. Socio economic Integration does a much better job.

2. Amazon will only worsen the school inequality issues because affordable housing advocates are lobbying hard to use amazon money (where ever it is) to build more affordable housing, in south Arlington of course. The board agrees with them. They all seem to think amazon people will want to live along the western pike and push up prices.[/quote]

I agree with that assessment. Amazon employees will be no different than your typical high income people around here. They’ll pack into the Fleet and Oakridge zones, like has been happening for years, but that’s it. Every other SA school has so many CAFs and market rate (Barcroft Apts, mostly) and it’s not mathematically possible to replicate the steady lowering of a high FRL rate like at Henry or Oakridge. Those schools were above 60 percent 15 years ago, 
but because their boundaries have always consisted of mostly SFH, it was possible for them to become balanced, even integrated for a time, as new families bought former rental homes and homes from grannies. Amazon money will bring even more CAFs. It’ll probably underwrite an expansion of Barcroft Apts.[/quote]

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