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Well, I'm curious which schools they want to close. If you look at DCPS' long-term enrollment projections, and remember that every student still has to be assigned to a DCPS by-right school within a reasonable commute, then it's really hard to close schools. You'd have to figure out how to re-assign every single kid to a school that has enough room to take them, and still maintain enough capacity for long-term growth. It's not like they never close schools (Washington Metropolitan comes to mind for example), but closing neighborhood schools is logistically a struggle.[/quote]

Talking about closing schools is a heck of a lot easier than actually doing it. Do you close the lowest performing schools? If so, you are closing the schools with the highest % POC and making the average commute longer for poorer parts of the city? Do you close better performing schools and force those families into feeder patterns with terrible schools? [b]No politician is touching this third rail.[/b][/quote]

And do you de-stabilize the nearby schools with an influx of students who are below grade level? [b]That's not going to be a winner politically.[/b] Nobody's going to go for this, the era of DCPS closures is over. They might replace leadership or try some "turnaround" scheme, dunno if it will make a difference. But just saying "close it" is naive and only someone with a poor understanding of the logistical factors would think that's a good idea.[/quote]

+100 to both of these posts. A lot of the politician-talk seems to be grandstanding but who knows? The new Ward 5 council person is consistently raising that the major problem with DC education is there are too many schools. [/quote]

Do you have a cite?  I do think we don't need any more schools at the moment and some charters are on shaky footing. It seems like budget-wise, better to have 50 schools that are mostly full rather than 60 schools that have a lot of empty seats.[/quote]

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