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[quote=Anonymous]^Sounds like you're assuming that Kaya is going to last in DC beyond her mayor, unlike Rhee.  I doubt it.  Gray has become so unpopular that he may not even run again.

Not having a viable neighborhood school for gentrifiers is hurting the Stanton Park neighborhood.  Realtor friends tell me that the LT District (along with the Payne District) has started to attract a higher percentage of gentrifying empty nesters than young families.

It's not a safe assumption that most IB parents will simply tough it out at the Brookland charters.  I know a good many who have given up after a year or two because the commute has exhausted them.  More seem to move to Upper NW all the time.  The Stanton Park crowd is aware that the most successful schools in the city are in fact neighborhood schools, not charters.  There aren't any charters with DC-CAS pass rates in the 70s and 80s while Lafayette's is in the 90s.  Few government employees find a commute to Brookland attractive, since there are hardly any Federal office buildings en route from the Hill.

The first step to turning around LT is supporting a Ward 6 DC City Council candidate who believes that LT is worth fighting for as a bona fide neighborhood school from the platform of the DC City Council Committee on Education.

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