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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Who gave the DME this assignment? If the DME wants to keep busy in her final months she can work on a recommendation to the new administration for improving the quality of schools, not just changing boundaries without a plan based on limited data, poor assumptions and no indicators for what success should look like. This is why families city-wide are up in arms. 
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It looks like many have forgotten the origins of the boundary process. Because of overcrowding in Ward 3 schools, Mary Cheh introduced legislation in 2012 requiring periodic boundary reviews. She was very vocal in demanding that something be done about boundaries. Catania suggested that he would begin hearings about boundaries since nothing was being done. Gray's tasking Smith with this job was clearly a response to Council pressure. Here is a discussion of Cheh's bill:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/277212.page

Also, the DME does have a strategy (perhaps plan?) for improving schools. I have no idea whether they are implementing it. But, the more paranoid among us may want to read this with caution. Some of your worst fears will be confirmed. One could argue that the boundary process is being manipulated to focus on the goals of this plan:

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/IFF_Final_Report.pdf

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Yes, yes. Everyone agrees that some boundary changes were and are necessary.  Why do people keep talking about boundary changes and student assignment policies like they are the same thing?  THEY ARE NOT.  A large majority of the proposals for new student assignment policies would completely do away with the idea of BOUNDARIES.[/quote]

Another good point -- and another good clue that the boundary issue became an excuse to push other concepts that don't have the best interests of children or their families in mind.[/quote]

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