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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is “hefty analytical shit” MAYBE to someone who looks at box scores for fantasy baseball, but even then at a very low level.[/quote]

It may not be heavy or advanced statistical research but is useful.

First section is an overview of what is being done in other jurisdictions to solve some of the same issues DCPS is facing, especially school segregation due to housing segregation in a neighborhood school system

It also explains DCPS’ goals (quality feeder patterns throughout the city, combatting segregation, [b]keeping students from enrolling in or leaving DCPS for charters[/b])) and strategies to reach those goals (more specialized programming such as Montessori, dual language at the elementary level and more career training and early college at the high school level). 
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This is the dumbest part of this entire DC school system. WHY on earth are we pitting charters against DCPS like they're something separate? They are not. They are still part of the public school system. Why on earth isn't there a strategic approach to support charter schools alongside DCPS, or any type of end game such as pairing up charters/failing DCPS, or maybe hybridizing, or even adopting some aspects of charter management into DCPS? [b]Charters are essentially treated here as some kind of experiment gone awry, or as though they are private schools completely outside the public system.[/b] Something is seriously wrong if they are merely competing for students. A comprehensive approach should be possible.[/quote]

Basically because the core mission of any bureaucracy is to protect itself.  It's not about the overall education results.  This is especially true in DC, with its complicated legacy of politics, class, race, etc. Neither what's called DCPS "Central" nor the WTU likes charters because they don''t follow their rules or their union contract. [/quote]

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