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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to beat a dead horse, but I think Breakthrough said whatever they needed to say to get their charter approved and are now quite happy to be located within gentrification and populated by gentrifiers.  I blame Breakthrough but I also blame the PCSB, which clearly does not give a damn that schools like Breakthrough will talk the game of wanting to serve underserved students without ever really having the intention to do so.  [/quote]

"Not to beat a dead horse, but..." followed by beating a dead horse. I don't think that schools like Breakthrough don't want to serve underserved kids. I do think that they, like all of the rest of us, are at the mercy of the lottery, and because "Montessori charter" is basically catnip to gentrifier parents of toddlers, they will be heavily represented in the overall pool of applicants. I don't blame the school. [/quote]

From their application:

Breakthrough Montessori Public Charter School aims to be a standard setting, high-impact, fully implemented, public Montessori [b]school that will transform the learning experiences of low income children in Washington, D. C[/b]. With financial and technical support from Next Generation Learning Challenges and the CityBridge Foundation—as part of their Breakthrough Schools: D.C. initiative—and the on-the-ground experience of our partners, the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS) and Lee Montessori Public Charter School (LMPCS), we are confident that our school will positively impact 90 families in our first year, expanding to 270 families by year five.

In addition to providing fully implemented public Montessori education to greater numbers of DC families, [b]we are equally committed to closing the opportunity gap in the district. We aim to achieve this goal by making, by design, Breakthrough Montessori PCS a racially and economically diverse school.[/b] Our premise, built on a large body of research suggesting that socioeconomic and racial integration provide significant educational benefits for all students, is that schools that intentionally seek to reduce racial and economic isolation create powerful communities of choice, in which school structure and culture support rigor, relevance, and inclusivity for all.

No they don't have control over the lottery results, but they have a lot of control over [b]where they locate[/b], who they hire and how they market and recruit. [/quote]

That's probably the biggest factor.  I'd be happily surprised to see them pick up one of the soon to be released properties over in Ward 7 / Ward 8.[/quote]

Also, there are a lot of low income kids in Wards 1, 4 and 5. There are a fair number of non-low income kids in those areas as well, but as someone with a child in a Ward 1 elementary school, it's not all the children of 2-lawyer families.[/quote]

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