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[quote=Anonymous]One thing that I have not understood with the growth of charters is how DCPS could be so slow to respond. DCPS has a huge disadvantage -- that they have to take all comers -- relative to the charters, but they also have a huge advantage that they tend not to use. Although charters have to run a lottery only take the winners, DCPS is not so constrained. They can select on other criteria. Have test-in schools. Create all the immersion schools they want and organize them in a way more oriented towards children with more support in that language or a mixture of different backgrounds. In short, they have some means of cherry picking the best students, but do not use them. Maybe that is a good thing. But since the charters have soft means of doing so, it seems strange that DCPS does not at least try to combat that with better options of their own.[/quote]
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