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Ballou stays open because DCPS provides a by right high school within a certain distance of every address in the city. Merging with Anacostia would not achieve that. [/quote]

I would love to know what you think this “certain distance” is because… have you seen the Dunbar catchment?[/quote]

The distance thing is a planning goal. It's not an entitlement to individuals. They aren't going to open a new school to meet the goal, especially when there are other high schools in the area that are not overcrowded. HD Woodson, Eastern, and McKinley Tech conveniently serve a portion of students zoned for Dunbar, as do charters such as Latin and WLA, and Dunbar is not overcrowded, so DCPS doesn't view this as a problem even those things Dunbar's zone is bigger than technically desirable. But that doesn't mean other schools should also have a massive zone.

DCPS closed a lot of schools in past decades and came to regret it. [b]And DCPS needs to maintain some extra capacity just in case it's needed, and to absorb kids from charters that fail. [/b]If, say, Thurgood Marshall Academy were to close, putting nearly 400 kids out, Ballou and Anacostia would have to absorb many of them. Even on zero notice. [/quote]

Isn't this the DME's problem to figure out, not DCPS's?[/quote]
How? Is the DME going to say that kids enrolled at a charter lose their right to attend DCPS when the charter closes on short notice? [/quote]

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