Posts tagged School Choice
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Community of civic hackers for education takes shape
With so many school options, applications, and lotteries, there is a dire need for information that will help parents make the best choices for their children. Code for DC’s DC School Decisions project aims to use data and develop code that helps DC parents and students better navigate school lotteries and decisions. The two of us started the volunteer-run project in late… Keep reading…
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How do you choose a school?
Schools are important. That’s what everyone says, at least. But while much of the public discourse revolves around big picture school reform issues, parents just need to find a good school for their child. Every parent in the country has school choice to a certain extent, but for the overwhelming majority of them it involves an expensive decision to move to a better school… Keep reading…
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Don’t favor local kids in charter admissions, says task force
Charter schools don’t give priority to kids who live nearby, instead choosing all students from a citywide lottery. Some other big cities, like New York, allow or require a neighborhood preference in charter admissions. In a report released Friday, a DC task force set up to consider this idea recommended against DC following the lead of these cities. The task force did… Keep reading…
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Should school choice work like bank choice?
A majority of public school students east of Rock Creek Park now attend charter or magnet schools, a fact that some consider a victory for school choice. If this trend continues, we’ll have a system with no neighborhood schools at all, where everyone chooses a school from a menu, like you choose a bank. Is this an acceptable outcome? The Brookings Institution ranked urban… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Create one single lottery for charter and non-charter schools
The current application process for DC’s charter and non-charter public schools is a chaotic mess that confuses parents and hurts education for students. DC could fix many problems by creating a centralized lottery process for all public schools, charter and non-charter. Steve Glazerman called for a centralized application for charter schools in 2010. Since then,… Keep reading…
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DC charter schools should centralize admissions
How can we make education greater in DC? One place to start is by making it easier for families to select great public schools. Our current system is rich with options. We have a wide variety of schools in the traditional DCPS school system, which offers an out-of-boundary process for any school with available space, and a robust system of charter schools. By law, each charter… Keep reading…
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How do parents pick schools?
For parents in our region, the hardest quality-of-life, “why am I here?” question is not related to transportation or even crime or retail amenities, but education. Is this a good place to raise our kids and send them to school? In DC in particular, this is the existential question that residents who are starting families have been asking themselves over and over… Keep reading…