Stability in DCPS
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Anonymous
| The current Chancellor has been running DCPS since the end of 2010. Over four years and if you count the previous Chancellor, which I do since they were cut from the same cloth and served together, then you're talking about the same leadership since 2007. That's 8 years of the same leadership--what other school system has had that remarkable level of stability? It seems to me every other local jurisdiction has had a bunch of new superintendents in that same amount of time, especially urban ones--say Baltimore for example who has probably gone through like 3 or 4 during the same amount of time. Negative Nancies will interpret this (in DC) as a bad thing, Pollyanna Paulines will interpret it as a positive thing....I just find it interesting and worth consideration as it seems so rare these days. |
Anonymous
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DC also ranks the WORST in every aspect: graduation rates, teacher retention, test scores...
Maybe a change of guards is what they need. |
Anonymous
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We don't rank worst in every aspect, actually.
We have the highest rate of enrollment in public 3 and 4 year old preschool, nationwide. We score pretty well on other indicators of early childhood education quality. |
Anonymous
| DCPS white students have the highest test scores in the country. So some things are ok. |
Anonymous
What is the evidence for this? And how is the dc cas a relevant test? |
Anonymous
Nationwide NAEP tests: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/statecomparisons/withinyear.aspx?usrSelections=0%2cRED%2c1%2c0%2cwithin%2c0%2c0 http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/NDEGraphicsGenerator/scmaphost.aspx?TableID=36121w |
Anonymous
It's churn and burn at the school level with principals and teachers. |
Anonymous
this was the case before Rhee/Henderson and will continue to be the case after Henderson leaves - unless the white demographics change. |
Anonymous
| DC is considered the best urban school district due to their innovation and trying to push the needle. It's extremely difficult given the poverty. |
Anonymous
Then why do administrators keep saying poverty is not an issue? |
Anonymous
| I think they'd say that poverty is not an excuse for not improving -- there's just a lot of improving to do. |
Anonymous
| OP here. The point I was making was that it is rather amazing that there has been such stability here in terms if Rhee/Henderson. There's been 3 different mayors and I'm not sure how many city council chairmen during that same time. Not to mention how many superintendents DC had in the 8 years preceding this current phase of leadership which I think was 5. (Two interims) |
Anonymous
Yes there's been job security for Henderson. But for no one else. Many go in, see the dysfunction and leave. 100 teachers new to the District quit by October. Others continue to leave. To their credit, the District seems to acknowledge the problem and want to retain teachers. But they're doing nothing to get at the reason they leave. Some after just days. So maybe there needs to be a change at the top to help stop the crazy turnover everywhere else. |
Anonymous
Are you being serious right now? Preschool? In wards 3 & 4???? Too bad that's not enough to offset the issues that leave toooooo many DC students behind. |
Anonymous
| This is statistically true when the testing samples are reduced. Maryland and Virginia's testing samples are much greater than DC. Also, the median family income of whites in DC is greater that the median family income of whites in Maryland and Virginia, |