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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPs are trying to solve 2 different problem.

If you want to address the DCPS diversity issue -- you can chip away at it by creating magnets for middle or elementary school with some sort of SWW/Banneker type admission criteria (multiple criteria considered). It would be a high performing school but not necessarily a FCPS AAP or MCPS HGC environment.

Other PPs simply want a program for gifted or very high achieving students.[b] If that's the goal, then it should be created without worrying about the ethnicity of the student body.[/b]
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But you can't have a fair gifted program unless it takes SES factors into account, so you do have to worry about ethnicity.  [/quote]

I totally agree. I just think that the PP complaining about the SWW process/criteria and, to a lesser extent, the OP shouldn't latch onto a study about segregation in DC schools as the reason why "DCPS should finally create magnet schools."

[b]FWIW Magnets also come in all forms -- not just or gifted / advanced students. You could create an elementary or middle school art or music magnet, one for STEM, etc. You could also make some city-wide language immersion schools with dual lotteries for entry. [/b]

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True but it will cost a lot of money to set-up and run multiple programs. Also, DCPS may not be able to fill the programs to full capacity. [/quote]

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