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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just did a quick mapping of Ward 3 (this tool is recommended: http://obeattie.github.io/gmaps-radius/?lat=38.924386&lng=-77.058519&z=13&u=mi&r=0.5 )

Spring Valley, AU Park, Friendship Heights, Foxhall Village and Burleith are all areas that don't have a DCPS elementary school within half a mile. What do you think will happen when someone tries to put an elementary charter there with neighborhood preference?[/quote]

Presumably, someone so nefarious would have a better understanding of available real estate than you seem to.[/quote]

Incredibly unlikely the DCPCSB would approve a school planning to locate in Ward 3. [/quote] Why not?  A new Ward 3 elementary school would help solve the current overcrowding issue. [/quote]

NP here, so why hasn't a Charter school found a location in Ward 3? I recall Shinning Stars (or another charter) looking at an office building, but it fell through. [/quote]

First, Ward 3 is very expensive and it would be hard for a school to make ends meet and pay that much in rent.

To get a charter approved these days, schools emphasize and discuss their commitment to serving all students, especially those who have no access to quality schools and articulate their likely location. They have to do at least a cursory market analysis and show that there is a need for a higher quality option where they want to locate.

You can't talk about your commitment to serving disadvantaged, underserved and/or at risk students in DC and at the same time indicate you will set up shop in Ward 3. It doesn't pass the laugh test.

Re Wash Latin, when it first opened, it was chartered by the now-defunct DC School Board. Times have changed since them.

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