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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Ward 8 families would love a military-family-focused charter at JBAB they could also attend. Set it up to take all the military kids as inbound and others on a space available basis and it would always be oversubscribed. [/quote]

That's basically the idea, half of the seats will be reserved for military kids and the other half will be open enrollment. They're planning for mostly Ward 8 students and seem to have been very successful in Chicago with a mix of military and local low-income families. [/quote]

How would this be different from the JBAB population attending Leckie?  If it's half military and half local families?  Why does it have to be a charter? [/quote]

How in the world is leckie 50% military? We go there. Do you? [/quote]

I can answer this - it will be different because public charter schools and public schools are different. It is not simply percentages, but also how schools are designed. Charters have a built in flexibility that many parents are drawn to - so if they say, we want to be responsive to the needs of military families-they actually can design some of their program around that. Has Leckie made similar overtures or shaped its program with the nearby military population partially in mind, and if so, how?[/quote]

Has there been a request from those on base for such programming?[/quote]

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