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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strongly in favor.  The modest impact is what makes it politically feasible.

Charters will not do this on their own because, despite their professions of wokeness, it is really hard work and their high-SES parents won't like it.  They aren't going to take the hit to their budget, operations, culture, or test scores unless peer schools take it too.[/quote]

To be fair charters cannot legally add this preference- it has to go through the council.[/quote]

Doesn't Congress have to make this change for charters?  I ask this without any belief that I know the answer, but aren't there aspects of charter law in the city that only Congress can change?  Do I remember correctly that they set up the allowable preferences in the law that created charters in the District?  [/quote]

No. The Council can do add a preference, as they did for the students with disability preference, and military family preference.

So long as the requirement does not set up too significant a barrier to 'open enrollment' they will not run afoul of the School Reform Act. The Attorney General and the Council's lawyers have said that a native speakers' preference, for example, crosses that line. [/quote]

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