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[quote=Anonymous]I’ll bite on the original question. I think there will be pockets of uneven integration. There is already strong integration potential at your selective high schools, and I see programmatic ties to integration through attraction: Roosevelt’s global program, McKinley Tech, Coolidge early college. The last resort schools with none but students who are behind will likely never integrate. They will be schools of last resort indefinitely: Ballou, Dunbar, Anacostia. Ones where a mix of student success exists and attractive programs have been added will work out. Especially where the neighborhood demographics supports a shift. Ward 4 and Ward 6 will have integrated high schools long before Wards 7 or 8.

The changes reaching high schools will arrive in 6-9 years in my opinion. When the demographic wave in kids and families and a slowing in the expansion of charter options reaches an equilibrium. My feeling - can’t support it that factually - is that the boom of births of families that engaged with DCPs hard in gentrifying area started about 2010.  And about five years ago the growth of large secondary charter possibilities really started to drop off. Others can correct that but my guess really is we see real integration in parts of DCPS secondary schools besides Wards 2 and 3 by the mid-2020s.  [/quote]

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