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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh get over yourself. More gentrifiers, more good schools in the inner city (built partly on a good deal of free parent labor) and some struggling boats rise with the tide.
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Bullshit.  You get over yourself.  DC public ed will be successful when it can't just cherry pick results from students who will thrive anywhere.

Outside of Wilson feed and a few isolated ES schools in NW and Cap Hill, what DCPS schools have benefited from gentrifiers aside from the odd bump in ECE enrollment?[/quote]

I mean, you’ve excluded some of the areas that the phenomenon is most applicable to. Brookland and nearby are sort of weird cases because of all the good charter schools in the neighborhood that actually draw largely from the surrounding environs (day 50%).

But even schools that haven’t really gentrified except for the ECE level have benefited in terms of resources. At Miner, roughly 80% of the PTA donations value-wise come from ECE parents, but the funds are spent fairly proportionately among the various grade levels.[/quote]

+100. Poor kids and neighborhoods don't benefit when UMC families reject a school system.
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Miner has benefited far more from being a Title 1 school than getting some gentrifiers to ride out a few years of ECE and kicking into PTA[/quote]

Miner would benefit from becoming a neighborhood school on Capitol Hill with stable leadership and a diverse student body, e.g. Maury, Brent, the Cluster, now Ludlow-Taylor.  Losing Title 1 status is a sign that dramatic change for the better is underway.  
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