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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with Matthews and Martel that some of those numbers are way out of wack.

Washington Latin Lower School (41.7 percent)
BASIS Middle School (33.9?percent)
Washington Latin High School (23.9 percent)
Washington Yu Ying elementary school (22.2 percent)

If the pool of students is only 5 - 10% white, it takes some heavy duty self-selection (probable) or something nefarious (unlikely) to get to those percentages. Reminds me of SWS, another school with miraculously high white enrollment (67%).

If nothing else, this could shed some light on comparisons between HRCS and DCPS. If HRCS's have a built in 20-30% boost in high SES enrollment, then those average DC-CAS scores should be that much higher than DCPS, not slightly above par.[/quote]

I don't think you are looking at the numbers in the right way.  Enrollment should match the population of the city not the kids enrolled in public schools.  Point being that many families (black and white) have enrolled their children in these schools but would not consider their neighborhood public school.  if excluded from these charters yhey would either move or go private.  So if you kick these kids out of the charters, the numbers across the city are not going to re-balance.[/quote]

Thank you. Are you people really that dense? How can you not get it? I guarantee you that if a white family did not get into Basis or Latin for middle school, they will not be attending any other charter in the city. These schools should be praised for being an acceptable alternative for what would otherwise be fleeing students. These school represent the city's population and is doing so organically. [/quote]

The original premise of charter schools was that they would bring an opportunity higher educational standards for every child, especially "inner city" youth.  Now, some of them seem to be morphing into publically funded enclaves for connected families.  I'm a big fan of the common lottery, but some of these demographic trends seem to have been baked into the cake before the lottery was implemented.[/quote]

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