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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, the lottery-for-all thing is very much on the table. It's possible that it is there as a cynical trick to make upper middle class residents more willing to pay more to make local schools EOTP better. Of course we already have very high per pupil expenditures, so that would not be very rational.

Either way anybody who thinks boundary elimination is not on the table is naive or in denial. The same is true about anybody who thinks this committee is actually a blank slate.[/quote]

+1.   I would have thought losing boundaries was not on the table until I heard Abigail Smith talk on Kojo Nnamdi show, re-read their published goals and checked out the backgrounds of the people on the committee. Now I think it is the hidden agenda: to very slowly do away with neighborhood boundaries and unite the DCPS and charter sectors to reach economic integration in all the schools. These people are zealots and and they care primarily about the poor children who are so cheated in our system and will simply try to leverage wealthy folks as much as possible to close the achievement gap.  True believers.  They will start with the high schools and it will go gradually down from there once people are used to the idea.[/quote]

While San Francisco may be the model other cities are looking to emulate, I don't see DCPS discarding elementary boundaries. [/quote]

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