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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this library article and the recent report on at-risk funds and where they were distributed so plainly and painfully point out is the incredible disparity within the DCPS system.  It is outrageous.  How can the administration allow the rich schools to continue to have it all while schools in lower SES have so much less?  If some schools have a librarian, and some do not, then why can't these staff be shared-- giving everyone a part time librarian?
Each school should be given an equal chance.
If Lafayette has 28,000 books, why shouldn't some of those books be redistributed to schools in need?[/quote]

The system doesn't "allow rich schools to continue to have it all." The have-not schools get significantly more in per-pupil funding. The have schools make it up with fundraising. If Lafayette is anything like my elementary school, DCPS didn't pay for those 28,000 books, the parents did. The only way to eliminate inequality would be to ban fundraising, which would drive a lot of the wealthier families out of the system. It's not a simple problem.[/quote]

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