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[quote=Anonymous]80-85% of the room at the open house was white.

Of course nobody can tell to a person looking around a room who is poor and who is rich.  Race and income do not correlate to a person.   There are also many middle and upper income blacks in DC.  However,  unlike many places (Appalachia, or Baltimore for instance) where there are many low income and unemployed whites - DC has very few poor whites or whites without college degrees.   In DC The unemployment rate among whites is less than 3%.   In DC a room that is 80% white will likely not reflect the economic diversity of the city, nor of DC school parents as a whole.

60+% of DC school children are African American.   Many of whom come from upper income families but many of whom are poor.

30% of DC's children are under the poverty line.  10% of DC's residents live in deep poverty (below half of the poverty line).  
The rate of poverty among black DC residents is 28%.  The rate of poverty among Hispanics is 18% (DC Fiscal Policy Institute - In the Wake of the Great Recession, Poverty Rates in DC Remain High for Certain Groups Sept 2012-a bit dated but still makes the point.)  Unemployment rates among blacks is 19%.

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