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" Hey Chuck! You're on the school board. I need to ask you about which schools are the good ones here in DC We're in the market for a house. Can you recommend a good public school?" The question comes from a young colleague, a liberal Democrat who supports integration and affirmative action. His child is still less than a year old, and it strikes me as a little early to be worrying about elementary schools, but I'm not surprised. Today young urban professionals start worrying about where they will send their children to school well before their first child is conceived. Perhaps parents have always been concerned about their children's education, but my colleague knows the stakes are different now. He has read the New York