Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. school lottery

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Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

I simply do not understand this at all If he didn't have proof of residency then how did he get in the lottery / enroll his kid in school? Is he even a resident of the District?

It's simple - he entered the lottery as a non DC resident. Matched with a school. Says he was not a DC resident at the time of the enrollment deadline. He later moved to DC and (as a resident) used the chancellor's discretion to re-claim the spot he had previously given up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

I simply do not understand this at all If he didn't have proof of residency then how did he get in the lottery / enroll his kid in school? Is he even a resident of the District?

It's simple - he entered the lottery as a non DC resident. Matched with a school. Says he was not a DC resident at the time of the enrollment deadline. He later moved to DC and (as a resident) used the chancellor's discretion to re-claim the spot he had previously given up.

Thank you for explaining it. If that the case then you go to your inbound school! Especially if you are moving to DC and make $295,000 a year (that's in the WaPo article)

In other news the Mayor is going on the Kojo show on WAMU tomorrow, Friday May 19 at noon to discuss this mess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

I simply do not understand this at all If he didn't have proof of residency then how did he get in the lottery / enroll his kid in school? Is he even a resident of the District?

you can apply in the lottery without a DC address (for example, say you know you're moving to DC in february but don't actaally move until later in the spring.) But that's why you MUST prove DC residency by May 1 if you're matched so that nonresidents dont take seats away from legit residents

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

I simply do not understand this at all If he didn't have proof of residency then how did he get in the lottery / enroll his kid in school? Is he even a resident of the District?

It's simple - he entered the lottery as a non DC resident. Matched with a school. Says he was not a DC resident at the time of the enrollment deadline. He later moved to DC and (as a resident) used the chancellor's discretion to re-claim the spot he had previously given up.

Yeah but the system doesn't work like that. You can't re-claim a spot that has already been filled. Chancellor discretion was used to create new spot in a severely overcrowded school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL Bowser is obviously worried about the optics here. Her account just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/865008428116189184

Whatever - too little too late. Her earlier comments tell the truth about what she thinks of this.

I'm glad she's fixing the problem -- even if under duress.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
Thank you for explaining it. If that the case then you go to your inbound school! Especially if you are moving to DC and make $295,000 a year (that's in the WaPo article)

In other news the Mayor is going on the Kojo show on WAMU tomorrow, Friday May 19 at noon to discuss this mess.

Well, she should not go on Kojo unless she is fully prepared to fall on her sword, admit that what has happened is absolutely wrong and cheats her constituents and taxpayers. If she comes on full of excuses and mentions of "discretion" it's only going to make things much, much worse. At the very least she needs to call for a more detailed examination that will look at the full breadth of the Chancellor (and mayor) discretion over the last several years. I really, really do not thing DC residents are going to let this one go. At least I hope not.

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Anonymous wrote:Its funny to me how the same people who are often against "school choice" and FOR economic equity and opportunity (i.e. liberal Democratic policy makers) would skip to the front of the line for their own children.

Skip skip skip

you mean do as I say not as I do the calling card of DCUM limousine liberals everywhere

Because DC public schools are by far the first choice for educating the children of the uber wealthy

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The mayor should demand an immediate audit of current enrollments for SY 17-18 to determine how many cheaters are poised to take spots in our schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. This article, and the report itself, makes Henderson look horrible. She turned down the request of a deaf student and also a teacher at a school where she granted another transfer request (Snowden) - the email excerpt is damning.

You gotta hand it to Bowser and Henderson- rather than own up to any mistakes, they are doubling down and defending he preferential treatment. That takes some serious chutzpah!

The last paragraph of the article being all self righteous worth the teacher who requested the transfer for her kid so her kid could attend the school she was teaching at. Henderson sounds like a horrible human being.

I was one of those people who basically agreed with Henderson that if they didn't want her to use discretion they should not have crafted rules that permitted her to do so. And I stand by that position...but OMG! The self righteous email to the CHML teacher is beyond the pale. She is not qualified to sit on the board of Robin Hood or be involved in any school program or system. What a scumbag.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc. so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools. Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school.

This is simply wrong. The affluent schools get fewer resources. You need to rethink your understanding of the problem.

PP who just posted the same thing here. Do you honestly think that if you put the bottom 10% of DCPS kids into Janney they would suddenly improve?? NO. My kids go to this school. I will tell you that it has all the ups and downs of being in a large public school, and if your child has all the challenges of being poor they are not going to suddenly thrive at Janney. Janney and the other high performing ES in DCPS do well because of the high SES cohort and family support the kids have -- I promise there is nothing special about being in those 4 walls.

Lafayette until the renovation was in a horribly dumpy building, with no walls (open classroom), rats, etc. Parents uniformly said that being in trailer city was a VAST improvement over the building. Yet, you had people like FENTY gaming the system to get their kids in. (Same can be said for Murch, pre renovation). This has nothing to do with the facilities.

and yet those schools had no trouble getting to the front of the line for modernization funding unlike other schools with less connected parents. Aside from Eaton, every non-modernized school in the pipeline serves a largely low income/at risk community.

Funny you should bring that up. Eaton is jumping to the front of the line in this next year's budget past a bunch of schools that are higher priority.

What? I don't want o be part of the derailment, but Eaton just got a letter saying we were pushed back again, but were officially on for 2022-24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a link to the full IG report on the Post's website: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/inspector-general-report-on-dc-school-lottery/2436/

I feel like an idiot...can someone instruct me on how to print out a copy of this report. I can't figure it out. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc. so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools. Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school.

This is simply wrong. The affluent schools get fewer resources. You need to rethink your understanding of the problem.

PP who just posted the same thing here. Do you honestly think that if you put the bottom 10% of DCPS kids into Janney they would suddenly improve?? NO. My kids go to this school. I will tell you that it has all the ups and downs of being in a large public school, and if your child has all the challenges of being poor they are not going to suddenly thrive at Janney. Janney and the other high performing ES in DCPS do well because of the high SES cohort and family support the kids have -- I promise there is nothing special about being in those 4 walls.

Lafayette until the renovation was in a horribly dumpy building, with no walls (open classroom), rats, etc. Parents uniformly said that being in trailer city was a VAST improvement over the building. Yet, you had people like FENTY gaming the system to get their kids in. (Same can be said for Murch, pre renovation). This has nothing to do with the facilities.

and yet those schools had no trouble getting to the front of the line for modernization funding unlike other schools with less connected parents. Aside from Eaton, every non-modernized school in the pipeline serves a largely low income/at risk community.

Funny you should bring that up. Eaton is jumping to the front of the line in this next year's budget past a bunch of schools that are higher priority.

What? I don't want o be part of the derailment, but Eaton just got a letter saying we were pushed back again, but were officially on for 2022-24.

The draft report from Grosso shows planning starting next year and then construction. I wouldn't be surprised if that gets some push back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a link to the full IG report on the Post's website: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/inspector-general-report-on-dc-school-lottery/2436/

I feel like an idiot...can someone instruct me on how to print out a copy of this report. I can't figure it out. Thanks.

I actually am not sure whether you can print it. It may be that the Post disabled printing so it stays exclusive to their website? not sure but in any case, not a dumb question since it seems to be impossible to do

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. This article, and the report itself, makes Henderson look horrible. She turned down the request of a deaf student and also a teacher at a school where she granted another transfer request (Snowden) - the email excerpt is damning.

You gotta hand it to Bowser and Henderson- rather than own up to any mistakes, they are doubling down and defending he preferential treatment. That takes some serious chutzpah!

The last paragraph of the article being all self righteous worth the teacher who requested the transfer for her kid so her kid could attend the school she was teaching at. Henderson sounds like a horrible human being.

I was one of those people who basically agreed with Henderson that if they didn't want her to use discretion they should not have crafted rules that permitted her to do so. And I stand by that position...but OMG! The self righteous email to the CHML teacher is beyond the pale. She is not qualified to sit on the board of Robin Hood or be involved in any school program or system. What a scumbag.

They gave her discretion because she is supposed to use it for the benefit of kids, like that kid whose mom wanted her with other children of deaf adults. Not so she could hand out favors to the 1%, who want BOTH their 6 bedroom house in Brentwood AND to be in-bounds for Murch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um this does not give me ANY confidence in the ability of Rashad Young to lead. You have to read this exchange ... wow

https://twitter.com/Young_CityDC/status/865219354899755008

He doesn't get it either!!! If you don't enroll on time then your slot goes to the next child on the waitlist! It isn't there for you to enroll at any point in time when you feel like it.

I can't on the lack of residency proof. I mean these people are joking. Please tell me they are joking.

You know who looks like Saints in all of this? The Principals who get these parents shoved down their throats and have to fit in kids to schools with no room and packed to the gills. Especially the CHM@L Principal who had to accept a student yet couldn't help get a teacher's kid in.

I simply do not understand this at all If he didn't have proof of residency then how did he get in the lottery / enroll his kid in school? Is he even a resident of the District?

It's simple - he entered the lottery as a non DC resident. Matched with a school. Says he was not a DC resident at the time of the enrollment deadline. He later moved to DC and (as a resident) used the chancellor's discretion to re-claim the spot he had previously given up.

I question whether he was truly matched at the school. If I recall, his kids are at Murch (?) which has an 800 kid waiting list. What are the chances that someone with no preference, indeed, not even a DC resident, would land a spot over a DC resident, OOB.