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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rhee succeeded in getting middle-class white parents to buy into DCPS in many neighborhood schools. As DC's demographics continue to change, individual local schools will continue to come around. Rhee didn't effect a district-wide improvement in all metrics because DCPS is a majority-poor school district. And majority poor school districts are failing school districts. When DCPS is no longer majority poor, it will then begin to improve across the entire district. Until then, it will improve at the local school level.

That means that instead of 4 elementary schools where a middle-class parent would consider sending their child to school, there may be 8. Or 10. Or 12. Instead of two middle schools where a middle-class parent would consider sending their kids to school, there may be 4.

That's what DCPS improvement is going to look like.

That and actually getting textbooks to students on time.[/quote]

not buying. [b]the demographics were moving in this direction well ahead of Rhee [/b]and will continue to do so.  Schools with improvement have done it ground up with parent engagement more than DCPS management.  Not sure about 4 MS schools btw.  Still looks more like 2.  Lots of charters picking up the slack, so I guess Rhee gets credit for propping up the competition, and charters have hired some good teachers churned out by DCPS.

signed middle-class white parent with kid in DCPS in neighborhood school despite Rhee.[/quote] Yes, gentrification, for better or worse, is a national trend as young people choose to move into urban areas.  Concern about schools grows [i]after[/i] these young people start settling down and having families.  I saw it happen in Capitol Hill where parents with young children got engaged with their local schools before Rhee arrived on the scene and it's continuing now.  Rhee didn't start that movement but she did try to capitalize off it - like any good politician would, mind you.  It's unfortunate she wasn't as smart about the rest of it.  It would have been better for everyone.[/quote]

Of course, in a high poverty, highly polarized environment like DC, Rhee was put in an impossible position. By trying to encourage middle-class families to enroll their kids in their neighborhood schools, she alienated existing families. Every one of those middle-class kids enrolling in an up-and-coming school was removing a spot from an out-of-boundary family, breeding resentment that we saw explode during the Fenty-Gray election.

In DC, encouraging middle-class families to attend their neighborhood school is a controversial political act.[/quote]

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