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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
frankly, it is quite clear from that article that the school is aimed at Palisades 
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Then, frankly, it should be quite easy for you to provide a quote to support your position. I'll wait.
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It's all about replacing Hardy.
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I can't say I know what you mean by that. It's more about recognizing the facts on the ground. Isn't Cheh giving the Hardy parents exactly what they've been asking for over the past year? If you make Hardy a magnet school, you have to provide somewhere else for the kids who were in-boundary to go. Saying "they all go private anyway" is just wishing the problem away.

Here's what's really happening. Ward 3 draws kids from the whole city. In 2010-11 there were 5,759 kids who attended DCPS schools in ward 3, and 2,675 of them lived in Ward 3. This isn't new, it's been going on for a while. What is new is that suddenly these schools have become real crowded. Total capacity of the Ward 3 schools is 5,340 so overall they're over 400 kids over capacity. In 2008-9 total enrollment in Ward 3 schools was 5,103 -- a 13% increase in two years. People look back on that as the good old days. Almost every school was below capacity, it was pretty easy to get in out-of-boundary.  In spring 2009 the Deal principal was visiting OOB elementary schools trying to drum up students to hit her enrollment number.  People in Ward 3 weren't happy that Hardy wasn't a real neighborhood school, but it wasn't a big deal because pretty much everyone could go to Deal if they wanted to.

It's looking like 2011-12 is going to be a blockbuster year. Word I've heard is that Deal is admitting absolutely no OOB kids, even siblings. Every school in Ward 3 is projecting big enrollment growth. Hearst has trailers and Key is adding them. According to the census numbers just out, the under-18 population of Ward 3 increased 15% from 2000 to 2010.  Crowding in the schools is a real concern for Cheh's constituents and she's trying to address their concerns.

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