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"WOTP slots for kids from outside of the immediate neighborhood should be going to low income kids from poorly performing schools not to middle class kids who can easily be bundled into a new set of high performing schools EOTP.  And that will incidentally maintain WOTP diversity and increase it EOTP - I trust that you understand diversity can also be inclusive of white and middle class families and doesn't just mean a school with some number of minority students?[/quote]

And I'm saying this as someone who works in political consulting...  while it may be earnest (giving you the benefit of the doubt), those set-aside slots will seem insignificant and ephemeral politically and the people who win them have no baked-in constituency since they are random lottery winners.  But the parents at Bancroft and Shepherd are loud.  As are the middle-class families from Brookland and Hillcrest who use OOB slots now.    The headline will be "mayor kicks hispanic and black students out to create a gentrified Deal"

Try again.[/quote]

Well what do you suggest instead?  We can't set aside slots by race though you can get pretty close to doing that in DC by doing in based on income.  There are a lot of OOB slots today at Deal and Wilson so you make the number high enough to be credible and part of how the OOB demand gets solved is when you create a second high performing MS & HS to absorb some of that demand.

But we can bundle up some neighborhoods with significant numbers of middle class families (many of which are AA by the way) into new school boundaries.

The alternative really is an over crowded Deal & Wilson.  Or you go back to the crazy city wide lottery proposal from 6 years ago for MS & HS and everyone suffers similarly.

I think bundling kids up by SES status in new boundaries is the most politically palatable of the options.[/quote]

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