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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, what probably has to go away are all of the special-interest "academies" in the DCC or the NEC that were open to anyone who lotteried into a given school.  That matters to my performing-arts kid A LOT.  But since nothing matters except STEM I can't even get a straight answer out of DCCAPS.[/quote]

Northwood is getting a criteria based performing arts magnet. That's great, actually.[/quote]

It’s not great from the perspective of the teachers who have been building up Einstein’s programs for years and years. So does the district just shuffle them around? Or do they hang on trying to keep their great programs while some of their local kids leave for Northwood? They would be tearing down what took years to build.
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This is another reason why keeping consortia would be better.  In a consortium, you can probably support decently strong performing arts programs at two of five schools, even if one is criteria-based and the other isn't, because the other school will still likely draw a disproportionately large number of kids interested in performing arts but who prefer the 2nd school (say, Einstein) over the first school (say, Northwood) for any of a number of reasons. But if Einstein is just for in-bounds Einstein kids, minus the most passionate and talented who leave for the Northwood program instead, that makes it much harder to imagine.[/quote]

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