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

If your goal is simply to relieve overcrowding by any means necessary with no concern with what happens to those who lose access, Catania is probably not your man. I'm not sure Bowser will be your woman, for that matter. But, if you think that confidence-building measures that gain community buy-in for boundary changes will achieve the same goal without causing widespread alienation from DCPS, then I suggest you take a closer look at Catania.
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I believe that the confidence building measures will achieve buy in from a few, including yourself, but will still leave many complaining (accurately, if not justifiably) that they are being moved from a higher performing school to a lower performing school.   That may well be a marginal improvement over implementing the DME proposal right away, though it will come with costs.   I can well see why someone who wants that appraoch (and who thinks Catania will better able to insure those confidence building measures are really solid plans) would choose Catania on this basis - but I do not think it augurs the kind of clean break in DC politics that would make Catania appealing to the large number of voters who are not harmed by the DME proposal, or who have little direct stake in DCPS. [/quote]

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