DCPS can open a school, or re-make a current school into a charter. It would be funded and in the DCPS portfolio, but separate to a large degree from DCPS bureaucracy. It could be non-union and have longer school days and other innovative things. AND, it could have neighborhood preference.

This is what I believe Tommy Wells was speaking to, and this is what the Chancellor has floated.

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Anonymous wrote:i don't think charters can have neighborhood preference by law, am i wrong?

Thank you poster! I don't think we have ever changed a law since the founding of this great land of ours. Good thing you schooled me...

Oh wait...

classy response. thanks for keeping it civil...oh wait

if the hill wants to change the law just for THEM, i would be interested to see how they can write into the law that their zip code or whatever gets preference for city wide charter schools.

Anonymous wrote:i don't think charters can have neighborhood preference by law, am i wrong?

Thank you poster! I don't think we have ever changed a law since the founding of this great land of ours. Good thing you schooled me...

Oh wait...

Right. Obviously Tommy Wells was gauging interest in changing the status quo. The DME seems interested in more cooperation between the sectors as well.

Neighborhood preference is not an enumerated preference in the Charter Reform Act.

i don't think charters can have neighborhood preference by law, am i wrong?