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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a model for how it might work is Washington International School WIS for 6th grade.  You can apply as French fluent, French beginning, Spanish fluent, Spanish beginning, Chinese intermediate, etc.  Depending on your language fluency, you take literature and social studies in either French / Spanish or if not that fluent in English.  I believe at WIS all math & science is taught in English.  Students not fluent in a second language start with Spanish 1, French 1, etc.  Students can start a third language.  Not saying this is how DCI will do it (I don't know) but saying WIS provides a model. [/quote]. Technically, but WIS is one, private, IB diploma, selective school.

DCI would not and under current law could not be any of these things except IB (at some point and with outside funding). It's competition would be all DCPS selective high schools, private schools (they could all use some diversity) and Tier 1 charter high schools. (Jay Mathews would include CHEC.  :roll: )  That narrows the pool of bilingual and bi-literate, AP-ready, no special needs or below proficient students. Some of those pre-Kers who chatter in Mandarin or read (already!) in Spanish may have tired of the extra effort and motivation (and possibly lack of sports) needed to stick with language intensive programs.

There are a number of co-location, coordinated charters. On that level, YY and LAMB feeding to a co-located, but separately run, secondary school kind of makes sense.
[b]Stokes and MV don't seem to have much to gain from the effort it would take to "cooperate". They are probably sustainable (no pun meant) as stand alones. Stokes has scale. MV has focus. 
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But that 1,000 number sounds really, really optimistic.[/quote]

You're kidding, right?  Stokes is constantly at risk of students in the upper grades, trying to find some place to go.  MV has focus... on trying to find a building!   :roll:

LAMB and Yu Ying are the schools that have cachet and accomplishment.  Stokes is lucky to be invited.  MV has to be thrilled - somebody else does all the hard work.  I'd like to see some outreach to SELA, the Hebrew Immersion charter would be another good fit for the school.[/quote]

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