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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a useless and pathetically researched article.

Money is not the issue.  Dcps spends more money per pupil than any Almost other school district in the country.  Double the national average.  It doesn’t help low performing schools.  You cannot throw money at these problems.

[b]In Cambridge, MA, all schools are required to have 20-30% (the city average) low SES kids.  All other kids are waitlisted until the target is met.  This is the best way to diversify all the dc schools. [/quote][/b]

So do kids in Cambridge not go to their local elementary school? [b]What if you are not low SES; do they bus you to another school in Cambridge?[/b]

Seems like this would incentivize all sorts of games for parents to hide income. Are they seriously looking at a parent's HHI on tax forms before they decide if there's "enough room?"[/quote]

Not the PP you're responding to, but I'm from MA, and have cousins and friends with kids in Boston and Cambridge public schools, so I can answer this Q.

In MA, parents aren't entitled to send kids to a certain ES by buying or renting real estate, like in DC. They're only entitled to send their kids to a school in a cluster of 3-5 local elementary schools, which generally run through 6th grade.  Very little busing involved.

Boston runs several "exam" middle schools which start in 7th grade.  Almost all the UMC Boston kids we know either tested into one of the three elite middle schools (Boston Latin, Boston Academy, Bryant STEM), or the family moved to the burbs or went private if their kids failed to clear the bar.  Boston and Cambridge schools are only nicely desegregated at the ES level, and the state mandates GT services in ES for students who qualify.  The great majority of the GT students are white and high SES.   Better than here, but not much.[/quote]

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