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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, and thanks to Jeff for reminding folks of the players involved.  As I said, I believe the scope of what's been proposed is beyond the planning capacity of a Deputy Mayor of Education an and education think tank.  I know the Urban Institute well, and while some branches of it would be well suited to analyze the effects of a far-reaching proposal like the ones floated here, I don't think they are involved in this process.  I still maintain that a wholesale redistribution of students across the city needs careful study not just by education analysts and community members, but by people who will question the impacts from very different lines of thinking--such as traffic flow, public transportation, tax base, property values, and what has truly been proven to remediate the achievement gap for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds (apart from increasing access to high quality early education, which, to DC's credit, we do great in).

I see little in these proposals that answers these questions, and I plan to attend the public meetings to ask them. [/quote]

I suspect that the Urban Institute has a bias towards "efficiency" as a public policy goal, which predisposes it to advocate for market-based solutions with "choice" in their title ... [/quote]

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