Head Start next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do poor or lower income whites live in DC? Not joking, just really curious.

There are poor and lower income white people in my Ward 4 neighborhood, and I define poor as qualifying for free or reduced meals. I'm sure there are some other parts of the city too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do poor or lower income whites live in DC? Not joking, just really curious.

Some are senior citizens, and they live all over DC. Some are students and are clustered around GW, Georgetown, and AU.

Overall, the poverty rate for whites in DC is 7.8% while it's almost 28% for black DC residents. https://www.dcfpi.org/all/income-inequality-dc-highest-country/

I looked at ACS data for S1702: POVERTY STATUS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS OF FAMILIES in DC, and it looks like there's a 1.9% poverty rate for white families in DC.

https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/6726-children-below-200-percent-poverty-by-race?loc=1&loct=1#detailed/2/10/false/871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133,38,35/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/13819,13820 shows that 3% of non-hispanic white children in DC had household incomes under 200% of the poverty line while it was 64% of black children. I'd guess that the white lower-income children are also more likely to have a parent who is temporarily poor (like in grad school) and to have another parent or other relatives living outside of the household who can provide financial support.

[Anonymous]

The staff at Bancroft has notified some of the parents about the status of Head Start at the school for next year. Many of the parents were pissed that Head Start is being cut at the school and plan to advocate to keep it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The staff at Bancroft has notified some of the parents about the status of Head Start at the school for next year. Many of the parents were pissed that Head Start is being cut at the school and plan to advocate to keep it.

Is it really that surprising, though? Bancroft's low-income percentage has been dropping for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The staff at Bancroft has notified some of the parents about the status of Head Start at the school for next year. Many of the parents were pissed that Head Start is being cut at the school and plan to advocate to keep it.

Is it really that surprising, though? Bancroft's low-income percentage has been dropping for a while.

The principal at Bancroft really wants the program and is currently looking at ways to recruit more Head Start eligible kids from Columbia Heights, Parkview, and parts of Brightwood. She should focus on Brightwood and try to encourage some of those ELL families to apply for Bancroft through the lottery. Marie Reed should do something similar.

[Anonymous]

Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Link to something or it isn't real, troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Link to something or it isn't real, troll.

Head Start will only be in 36-38 DCPS schools next year. Most of the schools in that Georgia Ave NW area are expected to be retained. As for ward 1, Tubman and Cleveland are expected to be retained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Link to something or it isn't real, troll.

Head Start will only be in 36-38 DCPS schools next year. Most of the schools in that Georgia Ave NW area are expected to be retained. As for ward 1, Tubman and Cleveland are expected to be retained.

Link??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Umm. Nope. You obviously have not looked at the actual amke of those schools. Bunker Hill is a great school and had about half non head start families last year. But most of them jumped over to Mundo. The most of the students at the schooland Prk program is certainly still in the head start targeted group.
It is a good little school for the most part. But because of the way dc does funding they don't have as many resources as some other schools. However, I hope they and the other schools you mentioned continue to grow and thrive for the families attending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Umm. Nope. You obviously have not looked at the actual amke of those schools. Bunker Hill is a great school and had about half non head start families last year. But most of them jumped over to Mundo. The most of the students at the schooland Prk program is certainly still in the head start targeted group.
It is a good little school for the most part. But because of the way dc does funding they don't have as many resources as some other schools. However, I hope they and the other schools you mentioned continue to grow and thrive for the families attending.

Unfortunately DCPS is choosing not to continue with Bunker Hill being a Head Start programming site for next year. The community needs assessment also did not support keeping Head Start at this school. The number of categorically eligible students was around 30% last year and even lower this year. It just didn’t make sense to keep it and DCPS had to make a difficult choice about which schools to remove from the program. It was a combination of student poverty data at the preK level, the community needs assessment, demographic forecasting and preK student enrollment. DCPS currently has 60 Title I schools receiving Head Start programming. Realistically this was a lot of sites for DCPS to handle so they chose to drastically reduce the number of sites. It makes perfect sense to reduce the number of sites from 60 to 38. Managing 38 schools is a lot easier than 60 schools. The ECE Division already had to cut 30% of their Central Office staff to pay for floater paraprofessionals for all of the 60 Title I schools to be in compliance with Head Start. The ECE instructional coaches serving the Title I schools each had 3 or 4 school assignments a piece this year. When you take all of these factors into consideration, DCPS really has no choice but to reduce the number of schools offering Head Start.

[Anonymous]

Cool convo with no cites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool convo with no cites

This is happening and many of these schools will now be on their own. They should taken it a little more seriously while they had support from Head Start. They’re going to be losing a lot next year. Hopefully these schools will be able to manage their ECE program with any support from Head Start or the DCPS early childhood education division.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.

Umm. Nope. You obviously have not looked at the actual amke of those schools. Bunker Hill is a great school and had about half non head start families last year. But most of them jumped over to Mundo. The most of the students at the schooland Prk program is certainly still in the head start targeted group.
It is a good little school for the most part. But because of the way dc does funding they don't have as many resources as some other schools. However, I hope they and the other schools you mentioned continue to grow and thrive for the families attending.

Unfortunately DCPS is choosing not to continue with Bunker Hill being a Head Start programming site for next year. The community needs assessment also did not support keeping Head Start at this school. The number of categorically eligible students was around 30% last year and even lower this year. It just didn’t make sense to keep it and DCPS had to make a difficult choice about which schools to remove from the program. It was a combination of student poverty data at the preK level, the community needs assessment, demographic forecasting and preK student enrollment. DCPS currently has 60 Title I schools receiving Head Start programming. Realistically this was a lot of sites for DCPS to handle so they chose to drastically reduce the number of sites. It makes perfect sense to reduce the number of sites from 60 to 38. Managing 38 schools is a lot easier than 60 schools. The ECE Division already had to cut 30% of their Central Office staff to pay for floater paraprofessionals for all of the 60 Title I schools to be in compliance with Head Start. The ECE instructional coaches serving the Title I schools each had 3 or 4 school assignments a piece this year. When you take all of these factors into consideration, DCPS really has no choice but to reduce the number of schools offering Head Start.

Hey troll, does your boss know you are leaking all this stuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cool convo with no cites

This is happening and many of these schools will now be on their own. They should taken it a little more seriously while they had support from Head Start. They’re going to be losing a lot next year. Hopefully these schools will be able to manage their ECE program with any support from Head Start or the DCPS early childhood education division.

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