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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]when rezoning takes place and OSSE creates space overage for at-risk set-aside for which schools do not meet a minimum threshold for % at risk based on IB enrollment. Politically volatile but practical and systematic.  No individual school will do this independently and every "successful" school is already at or above capacity.[/quote]

should add that DCPS needs to provide incentives for the schools to take on at-risk students and penalties for falling short.[/quote]

In other words, you want at risk kids to be forced into crowded classrooms when every study in the world says smaller class size is better for at risk kids? Because these schools aren't going to get physically bigger.[/quote]

[b]Schools don't need to get physically bigger -- the zones just needs to get smaller.  [/b]As PP mentioned there are federal subsidies for transportation.

As long at the schools can provide the space they obviously can't make anyone enroll in a system where choice is a premium.  At risk families have choices too but more hurdles and the system needs to help with those obstacles.  Schools would need to offer enough supports to draw and retain at risk students.  These are public schools that should offer a level playing field anyway.[/quote]

Ok, then that would necessitate more schools. How are ya gonna do that?[/quote]

Not really.  You can shift Janney kids to Murch or Mann or Hearst or all three.[/quote]

No way. All of these schools are bursting at the seams or will be in the next 5 years. Have you seen the projected birth rates and predicted school attendance rates for Ward 3 over the next 5-10 years? Under the current system, OOB will be completely shut out of WoTP schools by 2025: https://ggwash.org/view/71802/can-dcps-survive-the-coming-enrollment-surge

The child growth is not evenly spread out - it's concentrated in Wards 3, west side of Ward 2, and EoTP north of Columbia Heights.

How will shrinking the catchment areas for JKLMM help create more room for OOB? The kids outside the newly shrunken catchment areas will need to go somewhere else. Where do they go that's decently close to their neighborhood? You shrink boundaries but the kids who are now outside the boundary will need to be placed in a school. Your proposal makes no sense.

That's why I think Bowser will dismantle the boundary system when she leaves office in 2022. It will be the lasting piece of her legacy and then she can go peddle herself as an "education reformer" and make money. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be left to navigate the mess she leaves behind. [/quote]

That will never happen.  And, please stop trying to use my kids for your SJW experimentation.[/quote]

Sadly, it can and probably will happen. That tiny AU Park colonial you paid $1M will be worth about $800k overnight.  What are you going to do about it?[/quote]

Honestly, I’ll probably still move to the suburbs. I initially thought I’d “wait and see” what would happen to the schools. But I can’t stomach the idea of trying to get two  kids to two possibly two  different schools somewhere (anywhere) in the city, and then try to make my way to work by 8 AM.

Even losing $200K on my house, the math still works in favor of a move when you consider the cost of private school tuition, plus the fact DC doesn’t have a viable in-state college option.[/quote]

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