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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just spent an hour reading local news reports on Wilson from Denver and Oakland.  My strong concern is that the narrow focus of his career has been to boost charter enrollment to improve test scores for low SES kids.  A friend in CO tells me that she moved to the Denver burbs partly because he and his team proved inept on MS reform there.  I'd much rather have seen a Chancellor come in from a city doing a good job drawing high SES families to neighborhood schools, and retaining most of them through HS.  DC has missed an opportunity to import mature talent from Chicago, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Miami, or NYC.

This man is clearly not the Chancellor to introduce the test-in programs DCPS desperately needs to fill by-right middle schools in gentrifying areas, expensive-to-maintain buildings that sit nearly 3/4 empty, supporting student populations that are more than 3/4 OOB.  McFarland, Jefferson Academy, Eliot-Hine and other by-right middle schools can't possibly turn around under this Chancellor.  They have great potential, with spacious grounds and decent facilities, unlike the 5th-12th grade charters most of their in-bounds families flock to after 4th grade.  Yet so many of their classrooms sit empty that ES populations camp out in them during renovations (Watkins at Eliot-Hine this SY with nearly 500 kids, Maury heading there next year with 400 kids).

Antwan Wilson is obviously the wrong Chancellor to provide the leadership, and make the policy changes, to fill neighborhood middle schools across the city, and, by extension, neighborhood high schools.  This is no small matter for DC.  [/quote]

until dc offers more tracking or test in at middle schools where the gap is the biggest, they will not retain high SES families.[/quote]

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