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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Solutions:

--Add additional space. 
--Get rid of PK classrooms.
--Shrink boundaries
--Open a new elementary school (or one devoted just to Early Education) in Ward 3 to take off some of the pressure.
--Leave as is and suffer through knowing that the bubble will pass. [/quote]

Office of planning doesn't think it's a bubble. They're projecting DC will exceed its all-time high population by 2030. Fifty years ago DCPS had almost 150,000 students.[/quote]

that would mean doubling the existing population of public ed students in the next 12-13 years.  Don't see how tha'ts remotely possble[/quote]

The projections don't show the school-age population going back to 1960's levels, but they do predict something like [b]35,000[/b] more elementary-age kids in ten years. That would mean each of DCPS' 90 elementary schools taking an additional 400 students.

I kind of feel the projections are like global warming: if true, they are so catastrophic that people just can't imagine them happening.[/quote]

Not realy -- charters would take a good chunk of that increase.  I don't think 35K is unreasonable to handle but 90K not realistic.  DC can always add additional seats or expand charter licenses if demand out of balance with supply.  They can't double capactity in 12 years[/quote]

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