Anonymous wrote:Actually DC charter schools are anomalous, there have been several stories on NPR and similar as well as some academic studies as to why charters seem to be failing in nearby Baltimore etc. . and are successful in DC.

DC is a very different place to most cities- the middle class, the fed gov, the fact that we have no fed representation. even the population is different b/c of the fed jobs and NGOs, tons of international families. We also have an unusual amount of highly educated people who are paid very little. Part son the city are very wealthy and always have been while parts are gentrifying which is more typical of southern cities but then there is the immense amount of ethnic/linguistic diversity which is more like northern or Californian cities. MD, a highly wealthy state plus NOVA another highly wealthy area abut it and over power DC in a way that the states near other cities do not.. .

Charters in DC seem to be working pretty well but the gentrification of DC has only begun, The sky rocketing housing is catching up to what it should've been in the first place- it is stupid that a rowhous on Capitol Hill used to sell for under 500 k- that is artificially low b/c of how awful DC was, its normal for those lovely homes to be near a million. Thats how much they should cost if DC hadn't been a burnt out hellhole which is what it was for most of the past century.