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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]DP: For one thing, DC schools are actually becoming less segregated. In 2000, there were just over 1000 white students in DCPS, total. The only way for DC to increase the number of integrated schools is keep white students from moving to the suburbs or going to private school. Slowly, it has been succeeding, and that success is rolling east and south. By 16-17, according to OSSE white students were 20% of the school aged population and 10% and DC public schools. Now they are up to 16% of DCPS, more schools have white students than before; 59% of schools become more diverse between 2014 and 2017. But there still are not enough to integrate all the schools. So really, the report seeks to demonize the very people who are integrating DC's schools. I would even suggest that this site has done more to encourage and keep white parents in DC schools than DC has. Information, word of mouth, access to sometimes obscure data, learning how to use the lottery, etc. all of this makes is easier and more likely for parents to stay in DC. I bet if you polled white DCPS/PCS parents and asked if this site influenced their decision to try DCPS or stay in DC, a whole lot would say yes. [/quote]

This is a very good post and raises some points that I had been thinking about but had been unable to articulate. If you don't mind, I would like to work some of this into my post.
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