Summary
Few folks in the District are able to argue reasonably that all the city's abysmal schools should be spared from the chopping block. However, the who, the what, the when, the where and the how some of the system's 147 crumbling buildings should be closed raises a ruckus in almost every quarter.
You can play nice and label the plan by any number of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo misnomers you like, such as "right-sizing" or "consolidation," but the plain truth is D.C. school officials finally have gotten the guts to close some schools.See the full content of this document
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Call Closings What You Want, but Not Equitable
As usual, the neighborhoods where the schools will be closed first are those that traditionally are the least served when it comes to getting government goodies. And, these neighborhoods east of the city, where unemployment and dropout rates ...
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