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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The trick is really in balancing out the proportions of FARM kids in the schools.  Or in any case, getting more into the North by building affordable or mixed income housing on some of the bigger streets up there like North Harrison near the groceries or on Lee (but not feeding into Glebe).  All of those schools have less than 10% FARMs kids, and in some cases it's only 2 or 3 percent.  Those schools could easily absorb some of these kids and would have the resources to get them the help they need without hurting Larla's education or sending mom and dad in a panic to send her to private school.[/quote]

There is a lot of research showing that wrap-around services make a big difference in high poverty schools.  What if the school board enacted a policy that any school with a FARMs rate above, say 40%, gets extra resources- like social workers, psychologists, afterschool academic programs, etc- and it's funded by increasing the class size at schools with a FARMs rate below 25%.  Basically a local Title I policy.

This should incentivize the wealthier area to either support affordable housing in their school districts, to increase the FARMs rate in order to keep their class sizes small, or at least incentivize them to stop putting all the affordable housing in a few school districts that are "out of sight, out of mind" today.

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