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[quote=Anonymous]OP. Thank you. This is really interesting. I'm hearing:

1. The same issues affecting DCPS's lack of interest on differentiation/advanced classes are also affecting the charter board's interest in approving this kind of school
2. Medium-term, there may not actually be the gap in terms between supply and demand that I'm imagining because of Banneker expanding, the new high school, and Latin Cooper. (And for me, the high school options do affect how we think about middle school, because it means there's a light at the end of the tunnel/reason to stick around in DC.)
3. It's challenging for a new school to pull this off because you can't do selective admissions and you need a particular student population that may be reluctant to buy into a brand-new school

These all make sense. That BASIS is part of a national chain that had already worked out a lot of their processes, and that Latin Cooper is an additional campus rather than a totally brand-new concept, definitely tracks with #3. [/quote]

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