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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easiest solution is to start a gifted program at Coolidge. Make qualifying students attend.[/quote] DCPS has no power to make anyone go anywhere. Families go charter or move out of the city. DCPS already has six application-only high schools. The idea of concentrating good students (whatever "good" means) to create oases of success is not new or novel. The problem is that DCPS faces really daunting demographics. Academic achievement is strongly correlated with economic status, and 80% of DCPS students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Until DCPS figures out a way to boost academic performance beyond what demographics would predict, there aren't going to be enough good students to fill all of the application-only schools, let alone create new ones. [/quote]
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