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Reply to "If the DME goes forward with 10% set asides, will this be a common outcome?"
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[quote=Anonymous]That kind of gaming the system goes on right now: rent an apartment in Tenleytown, get IB for Janney or Murch which feed to Deal and Wilson, then buy a nice property in a gentrifying neighborhood with lower costs. Once you are in the feeder system you are in. This is the problem with OOB set asides: OOB does not necessarily equal "lower income" or AA. DME Abigail Smith is white and well paid and lives in a re-done place near Howard U that most DCPS families can't afford (many of the people who used to live in that neighborhood can't afford it any more either): but her child could get a spot at Wilson as an OOB set-aside. This is why those who think this school assignment reform will promote "access" and "equality" are being fooled. Gentrification will price more and more poor people out of more and more parts of DC. [/quote]
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