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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is a glaring example of how in Dysfunctional City one hand doesn't know (or doesn't care) what the other is doing. At the same time that DCPS/DME are proposing to put more students into cars at the price of walkabililty, DC's planning office and DDOT for several years have aggressively pushed the opposite policies. These include trying to eliminate or reduce off-street parking requirements for new development, to discourage car use, reducing lanes on major avenues in favor of bike lanes, etc. Future plans include congestion road pricing. You would think that the Office of the Mayor (of which DME is a part) would be coordinating major policy initiatives, but no.[/quote]

What if choice sets wouldn't work in your cluster, but were extremely beneficial in another?

As I posted in 9:38 above,  the SWS discussion has a lot of people claiming that they want that proximity preference which they don't have.  They may have a right to attend Ludlow-Taylor, which is very close-by, but some don't want it.  Wouldn't it be better to give these families prefernce for another geographically-close school then drive them off to a charter in another part of the city?

Even the fear that everyone would choose SWS over Ludlow-Taylor is tempered by the fact that the specialized programming at SWS is not for everyone.

My own neighborhood school is dual language.  But what if I preferred traditional learning offered at another school that's also close by?  Maybe I'd like to have a choice between the two.  And maybe that geographicaly-convenient choice is better than a charter or OOB school that puts me and the kid in a car every day.[/quote]

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