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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing they need to start taking into account is that no one is locked into this city.  Parents with resources (money, education) can and will move rather than sending their kids to sub-par schools.

The school district needs more high-resource students, not fewer.

How about we try to make the schools better, more attractive and fully resource them.[/quote]

To the contrary:  e[b]very family residing at subsidized housing in fact IS "locked into this city."  They aren't moving from those addresses.[/b]  But I'll correct that a bit:  perhaps they would move if they were offered equivalent subsidized housing in another part of the city, in a neiborhood with higher test scores at the local schools.  Then you would see whether "better shcools" would be an incentive for them to move.

I also must take issue with the statement that DCPS schools are not "fulled resource[d]" -- that was certainly true in the 1990s, but since 2005 or so, DCPS has been renovating schools like mad and there aren't any "I have no books or pencils" stories to be seen.  The problem with DCPS schools' performance is certainly NOT a lack of money or resources devoted to low-income student bodies.  [/quote]

Yes. And the working class and/or working poor families are being displaced by gentrification. The economic inequality is getting worse in DC, not better.

Facts regarding displacement and the rate at which it's happening in DC -- "In the District, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2000 to 2016." https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-the-district-gentrification-means-widespread-displacement-report-says/2019/04/26/950a0c00-6775-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.e5bc173ba2a0[/quote]

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