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I honestly don't know much about Coolidge aside from the graduation scandal.  Not sure that's the right comparator for the Bard program but the Bard program is a model that's [b]worked elsewhere, including in Baltimore.[/b][/quote]

This was the problem with Antwan Wilson -- DC is not Oakland or even Baltimore. Why? Because we're too small, too complicated, and too political.

Baltimore has something like twice the students of DC. It also has a "portfolio of schools" approach to coordinate public and charters. And it doesn't have to perform the roles of both a state and a local education department.

We don't have a DME or a chancellor and our mayor, who's supposed to be in charge, doesn't really know anything about education.

This sounds like the absolute wrong time to do this other than for Bowser's campaigning in Wards 7 and 8. She can claim to have kept a promise of something new for the forgotten people without having actually done it. (Sound familiar?)

Another poster said the Bard idea came from Antwan Wilson. Maybe it should have left with him, too.

Co-locating at Anacostia and giving preference to Wards 7 & 8 might result in something of value to the many bright but underserved kids EotR. They deserve it, but only if it can be done right. We shouldn't be experimenting on teens.[/quote]

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