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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading the thread about School Within a School and Ludlow Taylor ( http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/388579.page )  I can't help but think their situation was impetus for the choice sets idea.

If I understand it correctly, these are two geographically close schools, one with specialized programming open to city-wide lottery.  Most families at the school live within proximity, if not in-boundary, and they'd like a proximity preference to truly make it a "neighborhood" school that's still open city-wide.  But that might harm progress being made at Ludlow-Taylor, where families also want to see growth in IB attendance.

I'm not advocating choice set as a solution here, but it's an eye-opening example of how that policy might work.  Everyone with geographic proximity gets a preference in a ranked lottery for both schools (and whatever other schools are nearby) and get guaranteed placement in one or the other.  [/quote]

They're not really analogous. The choice set is to throw a much wider swath of Capitol Hill into the mix (including parts that aren't nearly as close to either school you named), and make it a free for all lottery among 5 schools. And at least that choice set had two existing specialized school options. Many didn't.[/quote]

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