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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the single public high school in the City of Alexandria is a really unique benefit to all of the students -- unlike other municipalities in the region, [b]we don't have the housing costs in different areas driving socio-economic segregation in the high school, and that benefits everyone[/b]. So to the degree there is still time to influence any decision, I plan to advocate with my elected representatives that Minnie Howard be rebuilt to be 9/10 (rather than just grade 9, as it is now) and the current King Street campus -- walking distance from Minnie Howard -- be used for 11/12. I've found that it's fairly easy to have an influence on these processes in the City so long as you're paying attention. Everything gets posted on the website, including meeting agendas and dates and times for the schools capital planning task force currently underway, and most meetings are open to the public.  [/quote]

Pp, do you not realize Alexandria City does indeed have this? If the local Alexandria City private schools as well as DC private schools didn't exist as a conduit away from ACPS (St Stevens St Agnes and Bishop Breton as well as DC privates), all these potential students would attend ACPS.

ACPS would benefit greatly with these now attending private students! In fact, that is part of ACPS's problem!

Sadly, it's not true ACPS doesn't reflect housing costs in different areas of the City. It would be great if the City and ACPS actually got real with just your point. It's been decades with nothing done.[/quote]

I've seen neighbors getting priced out of the various private schools in Alexandria City.  So there is some truth to this post, [b]but there is also a growing cohort of high-income residents who are moving back to TCW.[/b]  Ten years ago, when the private schools were still under $20K per year, it was a more feasible choice, but the local non-Catholic private schools are almost double that cost now, making privates less attainable (google 'the barbell effect' and you'll see the issue that prep school administrators have been concerned about, but not solved, in recent years).

For anyone who wants to be involved in the decisionmaking on schools in Alexandria, here's the link to the current Joint City-Schools Facility Investment Task Force webpage.  All meetings are open to the public:  https://www.alexandriava.gov/planning/info/default.aspx?id=97580  
The earlier poster who said that the City is starting to examine the School Board's recommendations more critically is correct. Hence, this task force.

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Sure there is.  LOL.

Have you seen the latest SOL scores?  Scores for white students are still below those of Wakefield in several categories. Especially math. They are terrible at teaching math.

http://wtop.com/education/2017/08/2017-sols-best-worst-northern-va-school-systems/[/quote]

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