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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Might be worth remembering that politicis is the art of the possible on this thread.  Organizers of the Brent school boundaries working group have already spoken to DC City Council Committee on Education members about which boundaries may change, and the Brent-Tyler boundary, and relationship, are not on the table.  This is because DCPS considers Tyler under-enrolled IB, like Watkins, and [b]under-enrolled schools won't have their boundaries enlarged[/b].  Moreover, DCPS very rarely allows parents to choose between two IB schools.

What is being considered is drawing the Van Ness school boundaries to include the southern zone of the Brent District, killing two birds with one stone in DCPS' eyes by furnishing enough IB kids to seed the school for SY 2015-2016 [i]and[/i] heading off over-crowding at Brent.  DCPS is under increasing pressure from the big Capitol Hill Riverfront developers, particularly EYA (builder of the Capitol Quarter townhouses) to provide them with a school so they'll build more townhouses. Great, Brent District kids served up to keep developers happy.  Many IB would much rather see Brent drop PreS3 in the medium-term, or even a classroom trailer or two on the small grounds.

Unless Wells and Kaya go are out of the picture politically within 18 months, nobody should be surprised if the Van Ness District includes a swathe of Brent's...

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Is this a typo?  Why wouldn't under-enrolled schools have their boundaries enlarged?  Wouldn't that help their under-enrollment?[/quote]

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