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It seems clear white families want other white families in their schools and are only willing to send their children so far from their segregated enclaves.
What can be done to design schools to bring in white families to schools that are not just "for" white families? [/quote]

Lots of people besides whites live in "segregated enclaves" in this city.   Most everyone would like to keep their kids as close to home, if possible, but black families or white families in mixed neighborhoods who value education  are more willing to send their kids further away for school if that's where the good schools are.  White families usually don't have to travel far to school, because the good schools are already in their neighborhoods.  The schools are good, because they have more white kids than the other schools.

In the case of Duke Ellington, it's a majority black school in a majority white neighborhood and when given the chance to build a new school in a more central location, they preferred to stay in Georgetown. making it easier for the lower percentage of white kids who go there, who tend to live nearby.[/quote]

That's not what I heard from the Georgetown residents, who wanted a "neighborhood general high school" to be developed there. For the record, the location across from Union Station that DE rejected is now occupied by a Montessori DCPS school with a diverse population:

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Capitol+Hill+Montessori+%40+Logan[/quote]

Your comment does not contradict the one above it.   Yes, Georgetown and other nearby residents would have liked to have a high school in their neighborhood, closer than Wilson, but DE community also wanted to stay in Georgetown.  I don't think they're against another general high school nearby, as long as they were not kicked off their territory --no matter than DE draws from the whole city -- they insisted on staying in Georgetown. They claimed the high school when whites were fleeing from it and they were not going to give it up decades later, even if it meant a lot less commuting time for their kids. Now only the DE students already living in upper NW will benefit from DE's  G-town location. [/quote]

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