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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]one of the messages of pieces like this, even if it isn't a direct point, is that choice isn't really an effective outlet for poor families, who have residential and transportation mobility problems that richer parents can get past. and ultimately there is no choice-based solution for the segregated, majority-shunned location-tied schools (and their non-choosing populations) other than closure, perhaps with a new school entering the same building.

I leave it to smarter people than me to say whether taking the same non-choice population and giving them to a charter operator generates better results. My sense is no.[/quote]

Except in DC the charter sector actually has a slightly larger percentage of economically disadvantaged students enrolled than does DCPS.

DCPS has a larger enrollment of ELLs and a very slim margin in number of students with disabilities.

So here many poor families are exercising choice.

http://www.dcpcsb.org/facts-and-figures-student-demographics

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Economically disadvantaged covers a lot of ground. The families that are poor but have the flexible schedules and support networks and other skills needed to research charters and enter the lottery and travel to school are not necessarily the same as the ones that show up to enroll their kids at my neighborhood DCPS after Labor Day (because that feels to them like when school should start) or who come mid-year because they got a safety transfer from public housing in one part of town to the housing near us after dealing with domestic violence or being threatened as witnesses to a crime, or who show up the month before PARCC after their charter makes life miserable for them. Both economically disadvantaged, but with different needs.[/quote]

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