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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's inevitable that DC scraps the system of neighborhood schools and moves to an all-lottery system with sibling and at-risk preferences.  It's the only manageable way to drive toward more equity and inclusion, so that everyone has an equal chance at the better schools.  A number of the key decision-makers in the Chancelor's office and OSSE want to do this.  It's just a question of when the mayor feels that the political moment is ripe.[/quote]

They tried this in San Francisco and it only made segregation worse, to the point where the city got rid of its city-wide lottery system. From the New York Times, last April: "What happened in San Francisco suggests that without remedies like wide-scale busing, or school zones drawn deliberately to integrate, school desegregation will remain out of reach."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/san-francisco-school-segregation.html

DC is never, ever going to try wide-scale busing. It might make David Alpert's head explode to find out that more vehicles would be put on the streets, and the GGWash crowd would throw one of their patented hissyfits. And it will be next to impossible to get creative with school boundaries without creating zones that would make a Maryland gerrymanderer blush.[/quote]

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