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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a meeting tonight at Van Ness Elementary for those families/children who got matched to Van Ness during round 1 of the lottery.  School officials gave the following info:

PS3 - 30 seats matched (14 inbounds kids)
PK4 - 39 seats matched (21 inbounds kids)

They also said that Van Ness IS NOT Title I for the 2015 - 2016 School Year.[/quote]

This is disheartening when I think about the modernization dollars going towards this school that could be going towards other schools that are already open and serving students.  Did it really need to be opened?  Less than 1/2 the incoming students are in-bounds.  Sure - there may be growth down the line, but this also speaks to a huge need for a better system to distribute modernization dollars and to coordinated capacity planning across DCPS and charter schools.[/quote]

I thought the same thing.  Why was a new neighborhood school necessary when it will be half OOB kids?  Others schools are bursting at the seams with so many IB students and poor facilities.  [/quote]

For once, DCPS may not be thinking purely in the short-term.  Brent is quickly becoming almost exclusively IB and nearly all OOB students added inverness the past few years resulted from the addition of a third classroom at grades K through 3.  Neither Brent nor Peabody has anywhere near the required capacity for PK, and upper grade class sizes are creeping upward.  The same is true of Maury, and Van Ness is potentially positioned to act as a backstop.  Finally, DCPS undoubtedly wants another feeder to boost enriollment at Jefferson.

I have no doubt that IB enrollment will increase as new housing stock continues to be built in the Navy Yard area.  I'm not sure how many units will be under the control of the DC Housing Authority, but suspect it will be enough to jump start the upper grades.  All things being equal, we're talking about a $2MM capital improvement to an existing DCPS facility that we are fortunate wasn't sold off by Fenty for development.  It's a drop in the bucket.  Indded, Watkins alone is slated to get more than $30MM.  If you have an issue with capital expenditures, direct your ire at the ridiculous sums being spent on high schools.[/quote]

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