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Anonymous wrote:There is like 76 pages of slides on diversity in schools, integration, policy approaches, and all that from the Strategic School Planning Advisory Board last week. It is a shitload of stuff to get through and it looks really, really interesting. (Just if that's your thing, rather than coming here to complain about why Upper NW doesn't have everything all the time.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E29tovOkKM5u9z7kH3Oyf4lvKivPiPKL/view

Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has yearly enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much.

Still worth it. If it helps a family get into a school that THEY prefer (like for location or sibling togetherness) that can be a real benefit to them.

Look at slide 66:
If you make At-Risk the first priority in the lottery, it would have only added 17 kids to NW DCPS in grades K-5 in the 2018 lottery. That's not much of an impact and will continue to dwindle as new housing is added in NW DC.

So? It might help kids get into better schools EOTP than they otherwise would.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is like 76 pages of slides on diversity in schools, integration, policy approaches, and all that from the Strategic School Planning Advisory Board last week. It is a shitload of stuff to get through and it looks really, really interesting. (Just if that's your thing, rather than coming here to complain about why Upper NW doesn't have everything all the time.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E29tovOkKM5u9z7kH3Oyf4lvKivPiPKL/view

Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has yearly enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much.

Still worth it. If it helps a family get into a school that THEY prefer (like for location or sibling togetherness) that can be a real benefit to them.

Look at slide 66:
If you make At-Risk the first priority in the lottery, it would have only added 17 kids to NW DCPS in grades K-5 in the 2018 lottery. That's not much of an impact and will continue to dwindle as new housing is added in NW DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is like 76 pages of slides on diversity in schools, integration, policy approaches, and all that from the Strategic School Planning Advisory Board last week. It is a shitload of stuff to get through and it looks really, really interesting. (Just if that's your thing, rather than coming here to complain about why Upper NW doesn't have everything all the time.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E29tovOkKM5u9z7kH3Oyf4lvKivPiPKL/view

Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has yearly enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much.

Still worth it. If it helps a family get into a school that THEY prefer (like for location or sibling togetherness) that can be a real benefit to them.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be all for the described lottery changes, making an at-risk preference the "heaviest-weight" preference, even above siblings.

I do not think it will happen because it clearly takes something away from non-at risk students, whose parents would make a lot of noise. There are only so many seats after all and this would be a zero-sum game.

It will also affect charters as well as the city-wide and DCPS application schools the most.

+1000. It is the right thing to do, it will balance school demographics and remedy a world of problems. My precious little sibling will be just fine waiting it out for preschool. As long as siblings get in for K, preschool elsewhere is normal and not a problem.

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Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has yearly enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much.

Anonymous wrote:Page 73 confirms that a goal in the next 2-5 years is "local boundary and feeder adjustments"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is like 76 pages of slides on diversity in schools, integration, policy approaches, and all that from the Strategic School Planning Advisory Board last week. It is a shitload of stuff to get through and it looks really, really interesting. (Just if that's your thing, rather than coming here to complain about why Upper NW doesn't have everything all the time.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E29tovOkKM5u9z7kH3Oyf4lvKivPiPKL/view

Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is a shocking stat: "Since 2008, DCPS has yearly enrolled 500 to 1,000 additional Hispanic/Latino and White students, while enrolling 600 fewer Black or African American students on average."

Also, it's bizarre that nearly 5% of DCPS students come from "unknown Ward." Even with divorced homes, the kids would be assigned to a Ward of a parent or relative.

It looks like DCPS is seriously considering adding At-Risk preference to the lottery. That said, with OOB seats basically disappearing at all desirable schools within the next 2-4 years, I'm not sure the preference will help all that much.

Anonymous wrote:There is like 76 pages of slides on diversity in schools, integration, policy approaches, and all that from the Strategic School Planning Advisory Board last week. It is a shitload of stuff to get through and it looks really, really interesting. (Just if that's your thing, rather than coming here to complain about why Upper NW doesn't have everything all the time.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E29tovOkKM5u9z7kH3Oyf4lvKivPiPKL/view

Anonymous wrote:I would be all for the described lottery changes, making an at-risk preference the "heaviest-weight" preference, even above siblings.

I do not think it will happen because it clearly takes something away from non-at risk students, whose parents would make a lot of noise. There are only so many seats after all and this would be a zero-sum game.

It will also affect charters as well as the city-wide and DCPS application schools the most.