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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthy people moved out of DC. Very easy explanation [/quote]
Obviously incorrect, though. Wealthy people never sent their kids to KIPP in noticeable numbers, and the public and charter schools where they send their kids are not experiencing the dropping scores that KIPP is seeing. [/quote]

Yglesias even has another article on that stack backing your statement up. DC is unusual in that the people moving in put their kids in DCPS (at least for elementary)[/quote]

It might be worth exploring whether the problem is actually wealthy people moving in to DC, but not into KIPP, [b]ie, maybe gentrification is disproportionately pushing out the type of middle class or aspiring middle class families who historically preferred KIPP, leaving KIPP with a harder-to-educate population.[/b] [/quote]

Lmao that is not happening in 2026. I doubt it's this either, but it would be much more likely in 2026 that it is immigration pushing out the families that would have gone to KIPP.[/quote]

If you look at the CFO tax report the population at the top of the income distribution is growing, and the population at the bottom is shrinking. Very reductive but the low income no income pop in dc is shrinking pretty rapidly.[/quote]

Yes, but that's not because gentrification is "pushing them out." You're falling back on cliches you learned 25 years ago.[/quote]
Eh I don’t think gentrification causes displacement, the research is pretty clear and continues to show that. I just don’t think immigrant populations are swelling at the bottom and keeping people out of KIPP.[/quote]

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