If Fenty Loses ...

[Anonymous]

Are children zoned for failing Title 1 schools allowed to enter any public school in the system?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are children zoned for failing Title 1 schools allowed to enter any public school in the system?

No--except in the sense that any child can enter any public school in the system (the issue being that there are few spaces for out of boundary kids in the best schools, and those spaces are assigned by lottery).

For schools that have failed to make Adequate Yearly Process in reading or math, another nearby school is designated to receive children from the failing school whose parents want to pull them out. I assume that in this case, children from the failing school get preferance when assigning out-of-boundary spots, but I have no idea how that preference works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are wrong. Principals offer suggestions to enrollment, DCPS makes the final call.

Disparities in the budget are there, to the tune of up to $3000 more per student at some schools. This difference, when multiplied by 300 plus students, can result in budget differences of $1 million dollars.

Did you look at the DCPS budgets? Have you served on an LSRT? I have. I am involved, but I do not control the budget. It used to be on a per pupil basis. It no longer is and it is unfair. I have asked for answers from the Chancellor's office. They do not respond.

Case in point, compare Maury's budget to Brent's budget. Brent is projected to have 3 more students than Maury, yet has $300,000 more in the budget. This doesn't even factor in that Maury has many more low income children than Brent.

$300,000 is three more teachers for a school. It's a huge disparity.

My resentment is not irrational and I will hold Rhee accountable when I vote against Fenty in the primary.

Brent's budget is $5,029,889 - enrollment is 276
Maury's is $4,715,178 - enrollment is 267

Difference of @$300K like you say.

I'm no mathematician but a big glaring difference in the budgets is the line item Federal payment of $532,632 in Brent's budget - explanation says it is a federal payment for school programs - could this be a special grant that Brent gets because it is a Museum Magnet school? In my mind this one line-item accounts for alot of the disparity. I don't know what that payment is for - but I would personally hate to see schools penalized for being able to compete for and get additional funds.

[Anonymous]

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My child attends a Title I school. I see the disparity in both the budget and the attention from the main office between my child's school and the more affluent schools in the District.

As someone pointed out earlier, almost all of these budget disparities are explained by choices made *by* the schools. There's a certain type of person who *always* feels resentment that someone else might be getting something more than them.

This phenomenon completely explains the Tea Party phenomenon.

No it doesn't. Anger over runaway government spending explains the Tea Party phenomenon.

Personally, I'm an Independent and I prefer seltzer, but then I'm not invested in pushing my agenda in every possible forum. You seem not to understand the meaning of the word "appropriate."

No it doesn't. Anger over perceived overspending on social programs explains the Tea Party phenomenon. Which neatly explains why there's such an overlap between Tea Party Activists and racists. Ag subsidies for rural folks? A-OK. Head Start for urban children? Grave threat to the Republic. Defunding Social Security? Great idea. Returning marginal tax rates to the historically low rates of the Bush I/Clinton Era? Class warfare!

Utterly transparent.

Appropriate - AKA the right time and place. This is not the one for your blanket ill-informed rant. Your inability to understand the difference isn't so very different from the homeless ilk getting blasted and peeing themselves in the public parks. This is not DKos, and we are not smelly hippies.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that if you think it's inappropriate, you'd stop engaging in the argument. Otherwise, you're Just another one of the bums rolling around on the ground, struggling to hold onto your bottle of fortified wine and your dwindling dignity.