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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. You're right PP, but a new mayor could indeed change this calculus. If either Racine or Gray displaces Bowser, either might be persuaded to demand that DCPS offers honors classes at middle schools like Jefferson that are 2/3 empty where in-boundary percentages are low but feeder elementary schools are thriving (Jefferson Academy's building can accommodate three times as many students as it serves). This fix is obvious and gentrifiers vote. In that case, the sky would be the limit at JA.  I don't expect a new mayor to be elected, or to demand this, but I wouldn't rule it out either.  The Old Guard of the Dem machine in this city remembers the Jefferson honors program.  A mayor of that ilk might be more amenable to moving to recreate it as a school within a school program than we think. Antwan Wilson is already making changes up the DCPS chain. The ground is being laid for greater change.  In the meantime, I'm with the PPs who see more Brent families heading to Hardy than to JA.  [/quote]

There are simply not enough gentrifiers to make a significant difference to someone running city-wide (city-wide council is different because you can vote for more than one candidate). And not all gentrifiers prioritize schools when voting.  [/quote]

Yes, the city council is the right place to start if voters are concerned about DCPS lack of interest in offering honors courses for capable students.  Get rid of Grosso, for example, who doesn't care about re-directing some of DCPS policy towards high performance.  In all of the gentrifying Wards, replacing insufferable representatives could be done.  The Mayor's office would come next.  But, weirdly, why in the world can't the Mayor and DCPS get behind encouraging BOTH lower performing AND proficient students?  Isn't the purpose of government to serve everybody?  Watching the history of DCPS for decades, it really looks like they want grade-level performing kids to attend somewhere else, while they deal solely on the intractable problem of getting low-income kids to perform at grade level (which still seems unsolvable).[/quote]

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