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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let's see if we're all on the same page here: There aren't any actionable public-policy solutions. Parents should do a better job raising their kids. Then it's just a matter of letting nature or economics or serendipity run their course.

Is this a great country or what?! :shock: [/quote]

There are "actionable public-policy solutions".  The problem is that they aren't actionable on the city level.  Particularly in a city that isn't embedded in a larger state entity.  The solution is of course to implement a strong state welfare system of the kind you see in northern Europe.  Since the chances of that happening any time soon are effectively zero, our best hope is to spread poverty around rather than concentrating it in a ghetto southeast of the river, but west of Eastern Ave.

If you don't agree, I'm curious whether you think it wouldn't be best to get rid of the out-of-boundary rules for DCPS.   After all, if concentration of poverty isnt't the fundamental intractable problem we should be able to just fix the individual schools, right?[/quote]

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