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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you point to the vagueness in the proposal, because frankly this seems a lot clearer than things are now.

The one thing I think they need to establish, that I don't see in the report, is the schools that kids in dual language can attend if they opt out of dual language.  [/quote]

I don't think it is a bad proposal in general, but there are definitely some things that need to be clarified.

First, how do the 10% set asides work?  Do you allow an overenrolled school to go above 100% capacity to achieve this? Who qualifies as a "qualified student" at a "qualified school"? (There is some discussion of this with the link, but it could be clearer.  What happens to middle class kids at mediocre schools?  Do they have no ability to go OOB now because all the OOB spots at many schools will be filled from the separate "at risk" pool? Do you win if you are rich (and live IB for a great school) or poor enough to qualify as at risk, but they didn't think about people in the middle?

Second, what is happening with the city-wide schools?  Since they don't have and IB population, is the preference list OOB with sibling, OOB at risk, OOB with proximity, city-wide? Or is it OOB with sibling, OOB with proximity (but only if the IB school reaches capacity), OOB at risk (or does at risk not matter at a city-wide school?  When is the proximity preference determined? For example, if the IB lottery and the citywide school lottery is at the same time, but the IB school fills up, do IB kids for the local school move in front of kids that got in through the regular lottery? at the top of the wait list, in front of OOB with sibling kids or just other city-wide applicants? For preferences kicking in, what does "may be required" really mean?  Who decides this and when? For the dual language schools, what are the non-language schools of right for those IB kids. What happens if those schools are overcapacity plus the 10% for set asides? Does this leave open the possibility for magnet programs at MS because MS are now neighborhood schools and selective programs can be school-within-school options? The examples given are dual-language, Montessori, and ER, all of which have historically been lottery programs, not magnet programs. (Basically the city-wide and selective section is really fuzzy).

Third, Do at risk kids who move boundaries have a right to attend the school until the end of that school or do they keep their feeder rights past that to the next school? It sounds like non-at risk kids get to the end of the year and at risk kids get to the end of the school and nobody gets feeder rights, but it isn't clear.

Fourth, why is the clarification that non-DC residents will not be placed over DC residents only appear in the selective school section?  Is this an oversight (I assume) since this is the policy for neighborhood schools as well.

Just for starters...
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Keep going! I agree with everything you have written so far. Thanks![/quote]

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