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[quote=Anonymous]Compounding that unhappiness is that Ward 6 — the gentrified locus of a parent-driven elementary school revival — successfully negotiated a plan with Rhee to strengthen programs at the ward’s existing three middle schools (Stuart-Hobson, Eliot-Hine and Jefferson).

Maria Jones, an African American Ward 5 parent, told the council that her community was stampeded by Rhee into accepting the closures — and the creation of several consolidated Pre-K-8 campuses that don’t adequately meet the needs of middle school students — while Ward 6 was accommodated.

Jones said it was not a matter of middle- and working-class parents in Ward 5 failing to speak out, “contrary to what Jonetta Rose Barras wrote in her City Paper article.” Barras wrote last month that school reform in Wards 5, 7 and 8 has not taken hold in part because the black middle class abandoned neighborhood schools to send children outside the ward.

“The wealthy and well-organized Ward 6 parents casually networked over bubbly wine and cheese and presented a school plan to Chancellor Rhee that she lauded and immediately implemented,” said Jones, parent of a former John Burroughs Education Campus student. “Hats off to Ward 6 parents for using your money, power and influence to create an ideal school community.”[/quote]

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