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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glover Park poster - you fairly ask what you can do to help ETOP. I think it is fair to say you are already helping as is everyone who pays taxes in this city. Broadly speaking the tax base of the city (at least residential/ individual not business ) is centered WOTP .  The city takes all the income and redistributes it proportionate to needs in other parts of the city thru DCPS and other programs.  I think the conversation must be turned back to what DCPS and / or any other city agencies/programs / etc are going to do differently than they have so far to improve the actual school communities at low performing schools ... [/quote]

What do you exactly mean by saying ".. do differently than they have so far to improve the actual school communities at low performing schools ...", in particular what do you mean by "community" ?  Are you suggesting that DCPS should be semi-randomly assign relatively more proficient kids to the lower performing school communities?

I.e. you are saying that, having been unable to improve schools , DCPS (I mean, the public school Department of the nation capital of the United States of America!...) has now decided that that it's not their task  to sort out , by leveraging on the best worldwide experiences and nation experts, how to improve DC schools, so now they are delegating this task to the relatively more proficent kids and their families , displacing them from their natural neighborhood school at walking distance from home and injecting their "human capital" into lower performing schools. And relying, for this brilliant idea on the advice of a group of semi-amateur self-declared education specialist - 21 Century - who have in turn sub-contracted part of the job to graduate students.

DCPS PROPOSAL MEANS THAT SCHOOL-AGE KIDS WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE JOB THAT DCPS HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THE PAST YEARS!!

Please, go out for a drink .[/quote]

Not at all - some how you interpreted exactly what i DID NOT mean. My point was - DCPS should use the resources it already gets from WOTP to improve schools and communities all over the city WITHOUT disrupting those which are already working well 
- ie not exclusively WOTP Elemwntary schools but those plus other high performing schools
In the city [/quote]

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