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[quote=Anonymous]Hilarious. ANY school would be better off screening for aptitude and working with available talent. That's exactly why the private schools do it - because they can. But, a magnet charter? That is ground that DC will not cede willingly to the charters. Charter law does not allow it, and everyone knows that if they could cherry-pick, they would. So, if anyone is going to allowed to do it, it will be a DCPS middle school. Not Basis.

If only it were hilarious. DC Charter law is hardly set in stone- as somebody pointed out, it has already been modified more than once.  Even as things stand, nothing would stop the city from supporting two Basis type MS-HS schools, one with an open lottery as a charter and one as a MS magnet where only kids scoring advanced on the 4th or 5th grade DC-CAS can apply.   Deal and SWW would be mediocre by comparison.  A selective MS will surely emerge within the next decade.  If cherry picking means meeting the academic needs of a critical mass of kids, voters will embrace the concept eventually by pushing pols to play ball, as in Chicago in the 80s and 90s.

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