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Tag: Abigail Smith

School Boundaries and Equity: Washington DC Ponders Alternatives

April 10, 2014 vspatz

Are school assignment boundaries about geography, social engineering, or school programming? Can redrawing school boundaries help achieve equity that has so far eluded a school

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DC Schools Offer New Common Application System

January 3, 2014 vspatz

Abigail Smith, DC’s Deputy Mayor for Education, provided an overview of the District’s new “My School DC” common application system on the Jan. 2 Education

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Charter middle schools? Because DCPS failure.

November 22, 2013 vspatz

Suggesting that DC Public Schools should “funnel kids” into charter schools for middle grades was either “a stunningly truthful representation by the Chancellor that she

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Major Urban School District Just “Doesn’t Do” Middle Schools?

November 19, 2013 vspatz

Both the Deputy Mayor for Education and the Schools Chancellor of the District of Columbia have publicly stated that DC Public Schools “don’t do middle

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Changing School Boundaries in DC: Process, Goal, and History

November 14, 2013 vspatz

“My big message,” Abigail Smith, DC’s Deputy Mayor for Education, told listeners, is “please, PLEASE take advantage of the various ways to engage” in the

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Planning for DC’s First Boundary Change in 30 Years

November 7, 2013 vspatz

For the first time in over 30 years, the District of Columbia is re-drawing school boundaries and feeder patterns. Abigail Smith, DC’s Deputy Mayor for

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