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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Great, please tell us how that would work. Give us a rough idea of where the City should be drawing these new school boundaries.[/b]

As was pointed out pages ago, the several DCPS elementary schools in the catchment areas bordering Brent's are also getting crowded.

As far as I can tell, as the Cap Hill baby boom fails to abate, DCPS needs to do the following, or some combo of the following...

open one or two new Ward 6 elementary schools
pony up to expand existing crowded facilities substantially
cynically let conditions in the most crowded schools deteriorate to the point that fewer parents enroll[/quote]

Here are the schools on/near Capitol Hill with excess capacity, based on the 2017-8 OSSE enrollment stats and the capacity from the 2016-7 DCPS utilization study:

Browne, Walker-Jones, Miner, Savoy, Tyler, Payne, CHM@L. Based on that, here are few suggestions:

1. Remove middle school from CHM@L and instantly create space for several additional ECE classrooms on the Hill.

2. Move bilingual program at Tyler to one of the extremely underenrolled schools (I'd suggest Walker-Jones, which is more centrally located than Browne) and make it a citywide magnet with no boundary. Give existing Tyler bilingual students and their siblings preference for the dual language program at Walker Jones. Then shrink Brent's boundaries, sending some of its students to Tyler. Alternately, cluster Brent and Tyler, making one of them all bilingual and one not; allow parents to rank which one they'd prefer.

3. Shrink Maury's boundaries, sending more students to Miner and Payne.  [/quote]

Let's see what else we can suggest to improve life on the Hill.  How about impeach Trump and put a Democrat in the WH, say, next week.  How about a strong white Republican mayor in four years while we're at it?

None of this has any chance at all of seeing the light of day (thankfully).  Exactly zero chance.  Totally impractical and impossible.
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