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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OR, let's create really super magnet programs/charter schools within DCPS to draw middle/upper class families back to the public school system. If we can get the proportion of poor families lower and the overall performance higher, everyone will be better served.[/quote]
YES. YES. YES!!!!!!![/quote]

Or we can just watch the accelerating pace of gentrification cause a rise in low SES families in the suburbs, and a fall in the proportion in the city.  Same difference.  No heavy political lifting required, though.[/quote]

good luck. the pcsb will NEVER let magnets exist in charters--only dcps gets to do this. and besides, when you try to do this (like YY) then everyone calls you elitist and beats you up on dcum. [/quote]

Not to quibble, but a charter is, by definition, a magnet school ( no specific boundary, pulling city wide).   All a magnet school is is a school that families choose for some reason, rather than being assigned there.  Some magnets have entry requirements ( I.e., Banneker ) others don't ( I.e. Logan Montessori and every Charter School )[/quote]

True, though I think it's clear that the PP who wrote " If we can get the proportion of poor families lower and the overall performance higher, everyone will be better served" was speaking directly to magnet schools with an academic entry requirement.  Which in DC would obviously be a de facto class preference.  Which would, by proxy, be a weighted towards racial preference as well.[/quote]

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