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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worst I think is The Mayor’s attitude about Latin-she takes it as great regardless of how it does for at risk kids and you know she’d find a place like that appealing rather than touting the public schools in her own ward. She just doesn’t seem to get what the overall ecosystem needs.

Could you imagine if the charter system was the system of right for at risk kids? It gives you a different perspective. Makes you see the kinds of enclaves charters can become and how that has negative effects overall. [/quote]

More at-risk kids are now in charters than DCPS.

When the mayor was the Ward 4 council member, she pushed for Latin to get its current building. She subsequently got significant blowback that a high-performing school was moving into the neighborhood but would be largely inaccessible to the kids nearby. I think that experience stuck with her, as evidenced by her and Jenny Niles exploring a neighborhood preference for charters (which in Latin's case probably would capture some at-risk students). That, in turn, was roundly criticized by the charter advocates and was dropped.

Over time, like all mayors, interest in charters as waned and interest in DCPS increases (was the case with Fenty and Gray, and now Bowser). [/quote]

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