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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gray can leave a legacy to DC without worrying about the Washington Teachers Union and others who want no change.

Now's a good time to say that some failing schools are unlikely to be turned around in the next 25 years and to try something else in those buildings and across the District.

We've tried for 50 years and it's just not working in places without strong charter schools and DCPS backed by neighborhoods with high real-estate prices.[/quote]

Time to drop the no-change theme, I think, as we've had nothing but change in the last seven years and should admit that it happened and was a failure, before going on to the next meaningless change, denying what's been tried so far.

It might be time to stop the turn-around language too, to the extent it implies that something is supposed to "happen" to the school buildings.   Like most worthwhile changes, a change in achievement must be accurately focused and won't happen if it's not addressed at all or not addressed correctly (as in the past seven years).

It's the poverty.  It's the SES level -- all the research and all the common sense and experience indicate that. Doing something about it will be hard, but denying it just perpetuates it.[/quote]

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