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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The discussions cited in the article have nothing to do with Haynes or YY.

It's been about what to do with the DCPS schools near KIPP campuses. This has been going on for a while under the radar. KIPP doesn't want to give up anything (can you blame them?) in order to take over DCPS schools near their buildings. After the Friends of Bedford fiasco the Rhee put in and Henderson cleaned up, it's not surprising the DCPS isn't in a rush to fully outsource to charters.

As a PP stated, DCPS can barely manage residency issues. But at least has centralized electronic lottery. Imagine if all the individual charters had to verify boundaries for each location AND continue to run separate lotteries and waitlists? What a nightmare.

The only way to make anything neighborhood-based work is if the charter and DCPS boundaries were the same and used the same lottery database and waitlist policies.

Not holding my breath on that one.[/quote]

That is certainly not the entire picture.  Just look at Kwame's thought process.  He is not simply talking about the new charters taking over DCPS.  While I agree that it's not likely to happen, you can surely tell Kwame's philosophy on the matter...

[b]“I think everyone knows that the current system as a model is not going to work as we continue to move forward,” said D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown (D), an outspoken proponent of neighborhood preference. Brown said he is pushing the idea because he has heard from numerous parents initially excited about the arrival of charter schools in their neighborhoods, only to lose out in a lottery. “I don’t know why you have to do a lottery when the school is across the street from your house,” Brown said.

Donald Hense, chairman of Friendship Public Charter Schools, which operates nine campuses serving more than 6,000 students in the District and Baltimore, said Brown and other city leaders are attempting to cater to white parents in gentrifying neighborhoods who want easier access to high-performing charters, such as E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Petworth. [/b]

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