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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I once read that DC student population is over 50% poverty

The schools are always going to suck.  Studies show once you pass 40% poverty the whole area is screwed

So the only thing we can do is have charters and concentrated areas of high SES so 25% of the schools are decent and 75% suck

If you spread everything equally 100% of the schools in DC would suck

That is also why people leave DC are choose private.  There are just too many poor young people in the area[/quote]

It is closer to 70% - if you consider qualifying for free meals poor.[/quote]

According to OSSE, in 2015 74.9% of students in DC, charter and DCPS, were economically disadvantaged. That's huge - and means we need to do mroe, and earlier to help these kids. If we wait until PK3 it's already late.

OTOH there is some encouraging data on the early education front. See this story from the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/08/26/low-income-kindergartners-are-closing-the-achievement-gap-reversing-a-decades-old-trend/[/quote]

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