IFF findings for DCPS recommendations.

[Anonymous]

My word, didn't Capitol Hill dodge a bullet. When IFF targeted 10 neighborhoods it seems that the Capitol Hill neighborhood was spared. As I perused the report there's not one mention about our neighborhood schools good or bad. Not a recommendation or an observation, is that good or bad? Do we look at this as being protected or being prepared for a future punishment? Also, some of the recommendations are just letting us know that political upheaval is in the near future. Get ready for the comparisons of charters to traditional schools being brought to intense levels.

[Anonymous]

What is the IFF report? Link?

[Anonymous]

What on earth are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

A link or a translation of what you are talking about, please.

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/01/26/Education/Graphics/IFF%20DC%203_Layout%201%20v5-%20012312.pdf

[Anonymous]

Most of the Hill schools are pretty good and those that aren't will get there in the near future. The missing piece is the middle school component but that's about to change. Why tinker with what's working?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the Hill schools are pretty good and those that aren't will get there in the near future. The missing piece is the middle school component but that's about to change. Why tinker with what's working?

Because most Hill schools are enrolled with a majority of out of bounds students. Families shouldn't have to travel to the Hill, they deserve them in their own neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Then if the Hill schools are so great then why not reflect that in a report. The report is not always about the gloom and doom. Now think about this Hill schools, if these so called bad schools are closed then those students who are within our boundaries will eventually have an opportunity to return. So, that will make the enrollment of certain schools at an immediate capacity.

Example, if Spingarn closes many of those students who are within Eastern boundaries but chose to attend Spingarn because of Eastern's relaunch will be give carte blanch to return. Hence, if the current school [Spingarn] is closed wouldn't it make sense to offer an educational opportunity back to their neighborhood school [Eastern]? Also, you have Woodson High School and the school boundaries of Woodson and Eastern are relative close within Ward 7. Therefore if Woodson is taken over by a charter school then we all know that the first thing a charter school will do is to eradicate their school of the knuckleheads and with Eastern being the closest comprehensive high school, guess what Eastern is going to be the next pitstop.

Yeah we are all hoping for diversity, that ain't going to happen if this plan goes through. Remember there's not enough whites in the neighborhood to compete with the black population that supports the school boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what you mean by dodged a bullet as Maury is listed as a Tier 3 school and Tyler as a Tier 4 school . . . .those don't seem to me like good signs.

[Anonymous]

The dodge the bullet is all relative as your point clearly makes a statement that the "aim" is not quite accurate, as the descrepancies between Maury and Tyler tier statuses is not a good sign [bull's eye]. I am just wondering about the neighborhood references, the report can mention Deanwood, Langston Terrace and other neighborhoods but Capitol Hill is hardly even referenced, what is our true collective data. The transparency is not present and when that is missing it just makes one wonder about the accuracy of information being reported. It is hard to dispute unseen data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dodge the bullet is all relative as your point clearly makes a statement that the "aim" is not quite accurate, as the descrepancies between Maury and Tyler tier statuses is not a good sign [bull's eye]. I am just wondering about the neighborhood references, the report can mention Deanwood, Langston Terrace and other neighborhoods but Capitol Hill is hardly even referenced, what is our true collective data. The transparency is not present and when that is missing it just makes one wonder about the accuracy of information being reported. It is hard to dispute unseen data.

Doesn't Cluster 26 map to Capitol Hill pretty closely? And there's not a lot of detail regarding this cluster because there's not a lot there that's broken--or at least, there are 10 other sectors that are a lot more broken than 26.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dodge the bullet is all relative as your point clearly makes a statement that the "aim" is not quite accurate, as the descrepancies between Maury and Tyler tier statuses is not a good sign [bull's eye]. I am just wondering about the neighborhood references, the report can mention Deanwood, Langston Terrace and other neighborhoods but Capitol Hill is hardly even referenced, what is our true collective data. The transparency is not present and when that is missing it just makes one wonder about the accuracy of information being reported. It is hard to dispute unseen data.

I don't even understand this. So you would like it to be mentioned? It is targetting what is wrong with the system and needs to be "fixed." In the grand scheme of DCPS Capitol Hill has a plethora of acceptable schools and school choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dodge the bullet is all relative as your point clearly makes a statement that the "aim" is not quite accurate, as the descrepancies between Maury and Tyler tier statuses is not a good sign [bull's eye]. I am just wondering about the neighborhood references, the report can mention Deanwood, Langston Terrace and other neighborhoods but Capitol Hill is hardly even referenced, what is our true collective data. The transparency is not present and when that is missing it just makes one wonder about the accuracy of information being reported. It is hard to dispute unseen data.

Doesn't Cluster 26 map to Capitol Hill pretty closely? And there's not a lot of detail regarding this cluster because there's not a lot there that's broken--or at least, there are 10 other sectors that are a lot more broken than 26.

Interesting that cluster 26 looks ok overall and at the elementary level, but when you lool at the graphic that shoes how "needy" cluster 26 is in terms of "high quality" middle school seats, we turn a rather darker shade of Orange indicating a scarcity at the middle school level. Check it out. Page 36 of report.

[Anonymous]

But isn't just about every cluster needy at the ms level, except those IB for Deal?

[Anonymous]

The report doesn't seem accurate but if DCPS is fine with the results and the IFF is paid for a completed project then our Mayor has gotten what he has paid for with our taxes.