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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]

I believe he is going to try to stop the changes via legislative means. At least, that's how I interpret this:

"I intend to take action to delay implementation of the recommendations until at least school year 2016-2017."

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I don't think he has a whole lot of goodwill built up on the Council, and I imagine it would be hard to get support for stopping a lottery that's already in progress and going back to the old system.  How much would that cost?  Where would the money come from?  How many charter schools would opt out of the combined lottery if they knew it was going to be a sh*tshow?

There will also be some families that like aspects of the new plan (at-risk set-asides, guaranteed PK in Title I schools) and will fight hard to keep them for 2015-6.

And while some Van Ness parents don't like the new boundaries, I think they'd be even more pissed to stay in-bounds for Amidon-Bowen.[/quote]

He doesn't have to stop any of the aspects people might like from occurring, he just has to stop the boundary redraw until there's a more concrete plan for people.  I'm not effected by the MS feeder component, I'm still fed to a crap school and I was before... But more people in ward 6 are starting to worry about that than will attend van ness.  [/quote]

[b]Oh, so he's going to make Wilson accept anyone who lives in SW, Navy Yard, Crestwood, Shepherd Park, etc. AND everyone who attends Deal or Hardy or Adams until Eastern, Roosevelt, and Coolidge are on par with it? [/b] He better start planning a budget that allows for an expansion.  Or does he just mean that he'll do that for one more year while those schools develop improvement plans (not like they've never had any improvement plans before...haven't we been through over a decade of No Child Left Behind) and then implement boundary changes after that, whether the schools improve much or not?[/quote]

I don't see how this could happen in 5 or 10 years. Catania just needs to accept the proposal as is and be done with it. He doesn't have "dirty" hands in this situation. Gray is out so let him take the blame.[/quote]

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