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[b]Segregation of schools happens because of neighborhood schools and geography. [/b] Rich and poor generally do not live together.  Charters on the other hand are not neighborhood focused, they draw students from all parts of the city which reduces a big part of the geographic segregation issue.[/quote]

Segregation of schools (by race or income) happens because of public policies designed to make it happen. It's not a natural phenomenon like the weather. [/quote]

You have that in large part backwards.  Take a look at a Census map of socioeconomic data for Washington DC and take note of the neighborhoods, and then take a look at school neighborhoods.  Policy isn't what's driving it, it's about where the wealthier people have chosen to live and what neighborhoods are gentrifying.[/quote]

Wealthier people do not choose where to live at random, and it also doesn't just naturally occur that there is little or no housing for non-wealthy people in wealthy neighborhoods. All of these things are the result of policies.[/quote]

There's a pendulum effect.  Policy WAS red-lining which restricted the poor in or out of certain areas.  That was replaced decades ago with a LACK of policies is where people self-selected where they live, and thus the wealthier could pick and choose whereas the poor cannot.  Now, policy is to insert lower-income housing in the midst of more expensive areas - though, I am not entirely certain that these necessarily always make sense either.  Any new construction and development in DC mandates a certain number of low-income homes.  But when these are built, does it account for a real model of demographics?  Do low-income families from DC actually get first preference, to allow them to relocate, or is the system gamed?  Or does it open the floodgates from MD, VA or elsewhere, where such policies might not exist?  Should DC continue to be a magnet for the poor?  Is it sustainable?  Are we creating affordable housing without also having the jobs to support them?  If housing development 'x' creates 50 new homes for the poor, can we then turn around and demolish and redevelop 40 prior, run down and decrepit housing units for the poor in a better way?  These questions don't really seem to have the answers in as solid, coherent and understandable of a form as they ought to...[/quote]

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