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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In truth, the number of quality early childhood spots is basically the same given that Peabody was able to expand.  And the cluster never really had claim to SWS elementary - the Cluster elementary is Watkins.  What is odd to me is that there is no proximity preference for SWS and Logan.  I'm not saying it has to be a huge area, but the idea that the neighbors should deal with the downsides of colocation next to the school without any upside is not a good one.  [b]One point of correction - Prospect was a school for persons with disabilities.  The fact that Prospect was citywide is not a real comparison - students were placed there based on their IEP.  The only other citywide elementary school is Logan. [/b]

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+1.  Prospect is a school that requires a student to qualify for services by having a qualifying IEP.  It is not a city-wide school in the sense that anyone can go there through a lottery.  If SWS was becoming a magnet test-in school or some other kind of school that required the students to show they had a special skill or a special need, that would be different. [b] The fact is that it is just a regular elementary school and DCPS policy is that there is a hierarchy that determines who gets preference at non-specialty schools: IB w/sibling, IB, OOB w/sibling, OOB w/proximity, no preference.[/b]  All that is being claimed here is that DCPS should not violate its own preference order, not that DCPS provide anything special to the people who live in this community.  If it chooses to not give an IB area to this school then the list still should go OOB w/sibling, OOB w/proximity, no preference.  That is not special treatment.  That is equal treatment. [/quote]

Isn't it a Reggio program?  Ergo, NOT a regular elementary school?[/quote]

As pointed out above, it does not qualify as a "specialized school,  program, or academy" since it doesn't have special entrance requirements. A number of other elementary schools, including several on Capitol Hill, use the Reggio program. While an interesting pedagogical difference, it doesn't make it unique under the law. [/quote]

At the pre-school level, yes indeed you can have a specialized program without a test-in requirement.  I can't believe you can look in the mirror and take yourself seriously.[/quote]

Someone posted a section of DC law and I responded to it.  Under this one section of the law, there is a valid legal interpretation that SWS does not qualify as a "specialized school, program, or academy."  That is what I was responding to.  There may very well be, to quote a previous poster, a "bright line" definition for what qualifies as such a program, but this section of the law isn't it.  Without some way to determine that certain students "need" to go to a special program and, therefore, should get preference over other students outside of regular procedures would require something more than a desire on the part of the Chancellor to make this something that isn't vulnerable to challenges.

Don't shoot the messenger. I am not advocating that anyone take legal action.  I am simply pointing out that the legal questions involved in these kind of redistricting fights are not simple or straightforward. [/quote]

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