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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me why Catania wants to postpone the new boundaries? As a rich, white person in dupont, I should want him to postpone them, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that what he's doing will benefit the upper middle class and hurt the poor students. How will cardozo ever become a good school if people in that neighborhood don't actually have to go there? [/quote]

If you have ever been involved in basic project management, you know that each step of the project has certain dependencies. A key dependency is a budget. The DME recommendations listed goals, but didn't consider or even provide for dependencies. As a result, my neighborhood has been re-zoned from Deal to a non-existant middle school. That school has no budget to operate, no money for renovation, no plan to open, no proposed academic program (though it will apparently have a dual language track), etc. Some parents see that there is a lot of potential in this school, but other families can't bank on potential. Those families either need or want to plan based on concrete rather than aspirational entities. Catania wants to used the year of delay to flesh out the dependencies. The year would allow a serious consideration of the budget realities and develop realistic timetables. It would allow the creation of school improvement plans for other schools so that they become more attractive options for the families re-zoned to them.

Basically, the DME proposals are only half of what is needed for implementation. Catania wants a year to complete the other half. [/quote]

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