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Until the Latin, KIPP, DC Prep, Two Rivers, and DCI feeders don't have WLs a mile long, we'll continue to need charter middle schools.[/quote]

I wouldn't suggest shutting them down - they provide special offerings, are available to children from areas not IB to the new and improved middle schools, and probably help to keep DCPS on their toes.  But NEW charter middle schools may not be needed - use up the capacity in the DCPS middle schools (including the four new ones) first.  [/quote]

You're not on the charter board.  One of the new ones approved to open next year is Washington Global MS.  + a new campus at Two Rivers.[/quote]

And that may well be a mistake given DC's planned investments in middle schools.  It will be up to the next mayor to address the issue of coordinating charter and DCPS plans. [/quote]

Are you kidding me?  We need to "protect" DC's investments in its middle school by limiting access to charter schools?   What about the actual education of actual children, which, despite financial investment, DCPS seems completely unable to pull off at any middle school with a significant number of non-wealthy students.  Lets see some successes and some innovative programming ( not necessarily big financial investments, simply smart and savvy planning anfd management of resources )  before trying to limit access to other public middle school programs that seem to be having success.   Having desirable DCPS middle schools is a matter of skill and political will in many cases, not just money[/quote]

Now's hardly the time to limit access to charters, because demand will only increase.  In fact, once the limited "grandfather" pipeline to Deal is sealed off, Oyster and Eaton families will be applying in greater numbers to middle school charters.[/quote]

I agree.  The numbers of students in Ward 6 who are looking for those new charter middle schools is HUGE.  And without a massive effort to attract them to Jefferson and/or Eliot-Hine and/or Stuart Hobson; they will leave the public system if those middle/high school charter slots don't materialize. [/quote]

That won't happen.  Schools on the Hill are viewed as an escape hatch for motivated parents in Wards 7 & 8, and the less wealthy parts of Ward 6.  No-one in DCPS is remotely interested in recreating the segregated enclaves of upper NW.[/quote]

Based on postings of witnesses on DCUM, some of the schools on the Hill are viewed also as an escape hatch for parents who live in PG County![/quote]

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