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This happened during Vince Gray's tenure as mayor. Linda Cropp made a statement about how DC is no longer trying to attract middle class families with kids because they take too many resources away from DC 's "real" families in city spending and remove the focus from DC's "real" students in the schools. She said there was an ever-replenishing supply of childless high earners and it was in DC'S best interest to take their money while they're here and encourage them to move to the suburbs once they had kids. It all happened after the transition from Fenty to Gray.

Yikes. Someone actually *said* it? I thought that I was just cynical.[/quote]

I believe this.  Public education in DC is a combination of the ivory tower education policy people (like the guy who proposed DC adopt a lottery system while moving to Bethesda for his own kids, or a former PCSB member who regularly excoriated schools about their results with at-risk populations while choosing to live in-bounds for Murch, a school that is less than 10% at risk) coupled with the entrenched local multi-generational DCPS employees who either live in PG or manage to wrangle WOTP OOB seats for their own kids, who just want to retain their  DCPS jobs and not be questioned.  
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