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Cambridge MA does something like what you're talking about. They have a pretty complicated school assignment system that tries to keep the percentage of disadvantaged children low at each of the schools.

But in a system like DC's, that's just not possible right now. The problem is that even if every child in DC went to public schools, there wouldn't be enough advantaged kids to spread out to prevent the concentration of disadvantaged kids. A city like Cambridge or, probably, Arlington (VA that is) has the economic demographics to do something like that. For the foreseeable future, DC does not.

Couple other things:
-Personally, I think Cheh's middle school proposal was all about making Deal more in boundary. Several of the elementary schools that feed to Deal have high out of boundary levels. That's why Deal is so full, yet still has a 40% out of boundary population. So if the goal is more diversity, this isn't the means.
-If Evans becomes mayor, expect to hear a lot about moving Ellington. He wants to recreate Western High.
-Small quibbles: Hardy is in Georgetown and Ellington is in Burleith.

by TM on Jul 23, 2012 12:56 pm • link • report

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