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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And....no one know who she is.[/quote]

I've lived in DC proper for 29 years and W3 for nine. The only person I've heard of among those who allegedly are running is Frumin.[/quote]
That’s only because he has name recognition as a serial losing candidate. [/quote]

He's also been pushing DCPS to do something -- anything -- about DCPS overcrowding in Ward 3, going to back to before the Ellington renovation when he pushed DCPS to move it to a more logical, central location and reopen that building as a general high school.

That's going to go a long way with W3 voters, many of whom are DCPS parents.[/quote]

Can't agree with the last sentence. Overall DC has a rather small proportion of families with children, which is one of the reasons DCPS can get away with being so mismanaged. [b]Ward 3 has the highest percentage of kids in private school, about 50%. [/b]While parents of DCPS kids are organized and vocal they are few in number. [/quote]

Citation needed.

The number of Ward 3 kids who attend DCPS grew by 25 percent between 2014-15 to 2018-19, the largest increase in the city. Ward 3 also had the largest increase in students attending a DCPS high school over that span, growing by 33 percent. Hence we have schools that are overcrowded.

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/State-of-DC-Schools-2018-19-web-res.pdf

If you think that public schools will not be an issue in the Ward 3 primary -- and maybe *the* issue -- you are hopelessly clueless about Ward 3 politics.

I would also wager that, even if a sizable number of Ward 3 kids go to private schools, Ward 3 public school parents are much more likely to vote in the primary and thus are a much more powerful constituency than the Ward 3 private school parents, many of whom I'd wager are Republicans who cannot vote in the Democratic primary and thus will have zero say in who is elected (the Republican candidate, whoever it is, has no hope of winning in the general election). [/quote]

Most of the kids who attend DCPS Ward 3 schools don't live in Ward 3.  Yes, in elementary most of the kids are in-boundary, and the boundaries don't cross ward lines except for Lafayette. But Deal and Wilson comprise a substantial portion of the kids in Ward 3 schools, their boundaries cross ward lines, and both still have a substantial number of OOB kids. You add it all up and the non-Ward 3 kids are a slight majority. [/quote]

Source?[/quote]

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