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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't fix under enrollment at Brookland so long as it feeds to Dunbar.

It's a sysiphean task.

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It is a huge task but it can work.  Stuart-Hobson feeds to Eastern but parents have [b]made a lot of progress there in the last 20 years.[/b][/quote]

The key phrase is 20 years. I would imagine OP has a child who is already born, and will need a MS option she's confident in sooner than that.[/quote]

I'm the OP, and have a K child.  I don't think it would take 20 years to fill up the building.  I think if they offer an IB program, there would be increased demand next year.  Look at the incredible demand for charters that offer desirable programming.  Many of them have no track record, and terrible facilities.  And yet the people flock to them.  This isn't that hard.[/quote]

a lot of charters are self selecting-higher income SES families who can travel distances in the morning and afternoon to the school. [/quote]

No.  They're buying buildings that are available since they can't have access to the failing DCPS schools they surpass.  It just so happens that because they have to pay market prices for large buildings (instead of being given access to the ones the law requires them to be given - like failing schools), they're less metro convenient.

You might not have noticed this, but houses, condos, businesses, retail outlets, restaurants, and just about everything else you want to visit costs more when it is metro accessible.  So when you force a school to compete with a business or a development to get a building, it might not be able to afford one right on top of a metro station.

In other news, water is expected to be wet.[/quote]

People forget that if a neighborhood grows or get redeveloped like Noma, Shaw, Charters are not required to take every kids that comes to them.  DCPS has to and thus this is the only reason why they keep so many of their building supply.  If DCPS gave up their buildings more easily to charters and the neighborhood had a growth in kids "Like some are currently" Charters can and often say "NO" to the child and they have to enroll in the DCPS school "No matter how over or under enrolled they are".  [b]I think people forget that Charters are just "Charters" meaning their not required to take everyone that applies and here's the kicker "Each charter unlike DCPS has an individual charter for their school or charter group only".[[/b]/quote]

This is NOT true. The DC charter law requires charters to take all kids and the data do not support your assertion.

Two large charter operators are being watched regarding their suspension rates, as they should be. But the data doesn't support your assertion that they can or do refuse to enroll or counsel out kids. [/quote]

Whoever the person who wrote this quote [b]This is NOT true. The DC charter law requires charters to take all kids and the data do not support your assertion.
Two large charter operators are being watched regarding their suspension rates, as they should be. But the data doesn't support your assertion that they can or do refuse to enroll or counsel out kids. [/quote]  [/b]   Please read below.

Charter Enrollment Rules

https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/38-1802.06.html

DCPS Enrollment Rules

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/boundary-school-enrollment

Case closed as DCPS has to take any kid in their school boundary "though they can opt out to attend another school".  Charters simply do not and it's written in the law.  However the floor is yours.

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