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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.

According to a friend who lives there, San Francisco has a similar system. Kids are ranked by the level of educational attainment of their maternal parent, and those with the highest ranking are bussed to the lowest ranked school.

As TM mentioned, for DCPS this would be a fool-proof strategy for driving all children of educated parents out of the system.

The only conceivable solution to the problem of DCPS is that poor kids as a percentage of all students has to come down. Either by increasing the number of middle-class kids, reducing the number of poor kids, or both.

by oboe on Jul 23, 2012 1:01 pm • link • report

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