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[quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering if you could set it up on a school level.  Any student from anywhere in DC could apply for admission, but the school administration would make selections.  School would require attending families to pay extra "tuition" beyond just the regular DCPS stipend, and those tuition dollars would go to fund that particular school, perhaps with some 10% kickback being returned to DCPS general fund.  In effect, it's a magnet school with a required buy-in.

As a result, students at the school would get a more well-funded education that DCPS can provide, and it wouldn't cost DCPS one extra cent.  Indeed, DCPS might get extra money in its budget (per the 10% kickback I described).

Problems:
1. What about the unions? Will the school still be subject to teacher union rules?
2. Many people will rightfully complain that this system is just a mechanism for wealthy families to get better schooling for their kids. But since they're willing to pay extra for it, that doesn't bother me too much.
3. Politically, it will be criticized as DCPS subsidizing a semi-private school for rich white kids.
4. Where does the school building come from? If you take a DCPS building, then where do the kids from that neighborhood go if they aren't admitted to the school?
5. Private schools will hate it because it competes with them.[/quote]

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