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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way in hell that the Charter lobby is going to let the city renovate Garrison. They have a stranglehold over the 500 kids that live in-boundary -- and they intend to maintain it.[/quote]

As a charter school parent, I can tell you the "charter school lobby" cares just as little about the kids in mid-city as DCPS does.[/quote]

Charter schools care about (and brag about and profit from) market share. Given the changing demographics of DC the only way for them to continue to gain on DCPS is to attract the children of gentrifiers. Therefore it is entirely in their interest to have these increasingly affluent neighborhoods with growing families like Logan Circle deprived of a neighborhood school.

Heck, even if they go to DCPS, the parents in the neighborhood will have been indoctrinated to the "school choice" bandwagon without even realizing it.

So there may not be a lobby, but unrenovated schools are a panacea to charters that want to grow.  Even better if their new clients are the offspring of the college-educated.

Charters are in it to win it.[/quote]

First, school choice is more than just choice.  Any DCPS parent that uses the OOB lottery is participating in choice.  If you are not in your IB school, you are making a choice.

Second, are you saying that only charter school parents are collage educated?  You must not be familiar with charter schools in DC.  Or, else you only think of schools like CMI and YY when you think of charter schools.  There are almost 100 charter school programs in DC.  Many, if most, cater to families who are lower income and minority. Get out of the bubble. [/quote]

I think you missed the point here. The charter sector has a lock on low income families in wards 7 & 8 and other parts of the city...but if they're going to continue to grow their market share, then they need to have a gentrified babies w/o decent neighborhood school.  Garrison is ground zero for these kids (say ~80 inboundary kids turn 3 every year, probably ~500 if you look at all the EOTP/WOTP "border areas") if they don't capture those kids and the influence of their parents, the the charter sector will cease to expand.

So, yes, renovating schools - and Garrison in particular - is anathema to the charter world.[/quote]

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