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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still looking for a reality-based argument for a city-wide lottery.  Most all of us know that such an argument does not exist (for example, see San Francisco, among others).

Instead, what might actually work to improve the available DCPS options?  I think some commenters are already onto it:  re-zone Deal and Wilson so that enough competent students (from, among other schools, Lafayette, Deal, and currently in-boundary for Wilson) get pushed into a middle and high school further East of Connecticut Avenue.  Based on population studies, there needs to be large enough numbers of these students that the majority of affected parents won't be scared enough to uproot and move to the Burbs.  The result would probably look something along the lines of constantly-improving Hardy, and within a few years you would probably see a pretty good thing happening.[/quote]

DCPS has to pull families into schools, it has no ability to push them, especially in the western part of the city. The example of Hardy is instructive. It's getting better now, but for a long time it had extremely low acceptance among in-boundary families. Simply drawing a line on a map didn't convince anyone to go to a school they didn't want to go to. Instead they went private, parochial, charter, they snuck into Deal, or they moved.

In an ideal world, a lottery would be a way of giving everybody better choices; there'd be lots of good choices and the lottery would be a way of more perfectly matching people with their best choice. In the current world, the lottery is a way of rationing a small number of acceptable choices. Expanding the lottery given that reality isn't going to be popular. [/quote]

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