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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they get a new location in Wards 1, 4 or 6 you know they aren’t serious about any change. [/quote]

If they wind up in the very southern part of Ward 4 within a block of Georgia Ave (Center City PCS and Paul PCS territory) that might meet the criteria. Not that high SES students can't commute there, but because they'd be smack in the middle of a 50:50 Latino and Black neighborhood. [/quote]

That's not good enough. The biggest problem these "too-white" (relative to city demographics) schools face in recruitment is that there are too many white kids lotterying for their seats. If Latin chooses a replication site that's an easy commute for white kids, the new school will be just as white as the current one. [/quote]

Maybe. But we don't know how many minorities actually entered the lottery for WL vs how many were able to secure one of the 40-50 seats that are available after the siblings are in. When MSDC ran experiements to see how an at-risk preference would change things. IT didn't do much because of sibling preferences. That's why there is a lot of debate about creating an at-risk preference AND making it the strongest preference, ahead of sibling.

So it would be something like at-risk w/sibling enrolled; at-risk w/sibling accepted; at-risk; sibling enrolled; sibling accepted; general pool. I'm not sure where a staff preference would fall in this scenario.[/quote]

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