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[quote=Anonymous]As I understand it, although I agree her position is evolved, Mary Cheh's purpose in proposing a boundary reform process to address overcrowding was to create a record to add new schools to Ward 3 with a focus on middle and high school.  And to look at decreasing the boundary for Deal and Wilson because those boundaries are extra-ordinarily large.  It was certainly not to redraw the elementary school boundaries in Ward 3 in a manner that undermines healthy communities by cutting her constituents off from their neighborhood schools when they are happily attending and the schools are performing well; or to shrink boundaries to exclude the school's own neighborhood.  The fact that the legislation could now lead to the Mayor imposing something that results in those outcomes for Ward 3 constituents and yet do nothing to alieviate Deal and Wilson's situations is terrible.  Every resident, Councilmember, and Mayoral candidate should oppose the unsupported and opaque redrawing of every school boundaries.  From what I've heard Cheh say, she understands this.  As I understand it, she has now called for more creative solutions to overcrowding that don't look like the DME's proposals for Ward 3.  I would urge people to demand better outcomes for your existing communities then the ones in the boundary proposals and not to be satisfied if DME just takes lotteries off the table but pushes the rest through.[/quote]

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