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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are near (but not IB to) a dual language school but have absolutely no chance of getting in by lottery.  It is a shame that DCPS offers these programs to just the people who live in a certain geographic area.  Dual language programs should be equally open to all (subject to balancing for english and foreign-language dominant, and sibling preference).[/quote]

I agree with this.  I find it really inequitable.[/quote]

It's how the lottery based school system in DC works. There are seats at a dual language school if you want them, just not the school you want. I completely agree there should be a citywide dual language school (or full immersion like in MCPS), like Capitol Hill Montessori or Military Road ELC, but you can't make all neighborhood dual language schools lottery based because they're still neighborhood schools first.[/quote]

There are lots of ES in our area. DCPS could easily divert students from one school into others and create an all-lottery immersion program. [/quote]

What grade are you looking for? There are usually K and up seats at Powell, Bruce Monroe, Cleveland, Tyler. Just not at O-A and Bancroft. Is it that you want a pre-K seat or only that you want a seat at a school that feeds to JR?[/quote]

I don't think that's really true at Tyler, if I'm reading the data right.  The tableau data shows that there have been just 0-2 lottery seats for English-dominant DL since SY2020-21.  And it looks like initial matches went to siblings (not sure about subsequent offers).  Looks like maybe a handful of offers go out in first (though it is listed as having no lottery spots).  This is effectively not a program that's accessible for (English-dominant) people OOB.  Not sure how that changes now that the whole school is DL, but it seems unlikely they will want/need more English-dominant students.[/quote]

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