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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leave and go where? They can go to private school - but there aren’t enough seats to absorb everyone - and the suburban schools operate with the same or even less base funding and extras as DCPS. No PK4 (or PK3) except for students with special needs for starters.

[b]In MontCo, for example, Title 1 and Focus (close to Title 1) schools get more staff. The class sizes in low-need schools are required to be larger than the ones in the high-needs parts of the county. [/b]

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In the long run, the suburbs and private schools can add capacity.  Just like back when DCPS enrollment was at its historic low.  Giving up free mediocre preschool in exchange for a good K-12 is well worth it.[/quote]

They aren’t shifting resources due to school capacity. It is a purposeful, deliberate, long-term strategy to address the achievement gap, presumably so it doesn’t expand to be as wide as DC’s is. [/quote]

This is also true in DC.[/quote]

It is supposed to be — as the article says it isn’t actually happening because of how the budget and/or the budget process is structured. [/quote]

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