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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of this assumes growth will continue despite declining birth rates and federal meddling in the city.[/quote]

I don’t think growth will continue; in addition to declining birth rates, a lot of DC growth recently has been driven by international migration in, and that’s also probably not continuing.

That said, I think a lot of the coming collapse will be in the charter sector, so it’s possible DCPS locations will see at least a blip of growth when those kids move school. [/quote]

Unless the federal government tries to artificially prop up charters. Which it's trying to.[/quote]

How? How would it work for the federal government to prop up charters? Most of the charters in trouble have academic issues under PCSB academic measures. I don't see how the federal government could stop PCSB sanctions for poorly performing schools (assuming the PCSB will even have sanctions for poor performance). On finances, there hasn't been an influx of federal support for DC charters -- at least not yet. IMO, the PCSB will have much more say than the federal government on whether struggling charters close or not.[/quote]

They're planning to cut SOAR funding for public schools in half and keep charters at current levels.[/quote]

That's not propping up charters. The charter portion remains the same. They are trying to move the SOAR funding cut from DCPS to privates/vouchers. Also, there just isn't enough in SOAR to prop up charters. Charter get a couple of hundred dollars a student from SOAR through a formula allocation. The rest of the charter portion goes out via competitive grants for facilities and also grants to "support organizations" like School Leader Lab and New Leaders.

There may be other ways the feds try to prop up charters. For SOAR to prop up charters, the funding levels will need to significantly increase and regulations will need to change so the bulk of funds go directly to charters on a per pupil basis.[/quote]

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