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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Who gave the DME this assignment? If the DME wants to keep busy in her final months she can work on a recommendation to the new administration for improving the quality of schools, not just changing boundaries without a plan based on limited data, poor assumptions and no indicators for what success should look like. This is why families city-wide are up in arms. 
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It looks like many have forgotten the origins of the boundary process. Because of overcrowding in Ward 3 schools, Mary Cheh introduced legislation in 2012 requiring periodic boundary reviews. She was very vocal in demanding that something be done about boundaries. Catania suggested that he would begin hearings about boundaries since nothing was being done. Gray's tasking Smith with this job was clearly a response to Council pressure. Here is a discussion of Cheh's bill:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/277212.page

Also, the DME does have a strategy (perhaps plan?) for improving schools. I have no idea whether they are implementing it. But, the more paranoid among us may want to read this with caution. Some of your worst fears will be confirmed. One could argue that the boundary process is being manipulated to focus on the goals of this plan:

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/IFF_Final_Report.pdf

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In a recent letter to the DME, Mary Cheh expressed strong opposition to the current process and its specific plans for lotteries, choice sets and specific boundary re-draws like the expansion of Hearst to incorporate streets very close to Janney and Murch. So has her position evolved since 2012? Or are you really suggesting that her current opposition is insincere and that they are just posturing to have Gray and Smith take the heat for this?[/quote]

The study that she initiated in 2012 would have inevitably led to technical changes like Murch-&gt;Hearst. So yes, she is full of, ahem, she is being insincere now. IMO.[/quote]

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