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[quote=Anonymous]You may be right that neighborhoods are slowly changing from concentrated poverty to less-concentrated poverty.  But even in that slow change, there will be a very long tie when children burdened by the effects of poverty will outnumber those who are not.  At the same time, DCPS needs to dig itself out from decades of dysfunction and corruption and mismanagement.

While the socio-economic balances change and the school system as a whole improves ( could take 10 years or more ) 
a visionary leader would find a way to build bridges for the families they would like to see engage and stay with the school system.

For a while, this "bridge"was the OOB lottery system. Now it might need to look more like some academic magnet schools or a controlled choice situation where academically ambitious families could cluster themselves ( that happens anyway with charters and OOB lotteries--but it could be effective if run officially by DCPS ).

It DOES NOT look like tough love and "forcing" families to use and improve their local schools. It needs to be much more subtle than that. If only we had the leadership to make this happen.[/quote]

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