Implications of a Trump presidency for DC schools

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Anonymous wrote:No implications. Seriously, every four years people get stressed out about how schools and real estate are going to change, but they don't. The government jobs, contractors, NGOs, lawyers and lobbyists are all the same regardless.

I think this is different. A Trump administration is going to draw a particular breed. In addition, many Democratic Liberals who work for the government or government contractors - from USAID to EPA to Labor to Justice - are just not going to have the stomach to work for organizations that ultimately report to Donald Trump. I think you're going to see a lot of these people move out of DC. It's nowhere near as appealing to live in DC and be part of the "DC scene" when it's going to be led by a bigoted demagogue. East Coasters are just not going to want to be part of it at all. I already hear people talking about leaving; some aren't serious and won't, but MANY 20 and 30 somethings without mortgages or kids can easily pick up and move to NY, Boston, Philly, the West Coast, or any other place that isn't "where Donald Trump lives."

If Cruz or Rubio or Jeb won, I wouldn't be saying this. But there is something very tangibly, palpably different about this.

I'm not seeing it. The president has very little contact with the city itself. The Bushes never even went out to dinner in DC. Advisors live in Great Falls and send their kids to private schools. Most of us feds/NGO types plan to just ride it out. The ones with a real liberal conscience are determined to do their best to fight for their agency's mission, and the money grubbers will stick around if the jobs do.

They did, actually. Like twice to Cactus Cantina. I'm hoping every restaurant in the city refuses to serve that monster. I want his four years here to be highly uncomfortable. I want people to shout at his motorcade. I want him to know how much he's hated every time he looks out the white house windows.

You need therapy. I know that phrase gets thrown around a lot on dcum. But you really, really need help. I didn't vote for Trump. I'm disappointed in the election results. However, now that he is going to be our President, I wish him nothing but the best. To do otherwise is like being on an airplane and hoping the pilot screws up. Plus, the anger in your post is concerning. If I knew you, my kids would certainly never be allowed in your home.

What? I think you are a bit dramatic. It's completely ok to make this hate filled bully know he's not welcome here.

He is already our President-elect, ignorant fool (not Trump voter here). It's time to offer respect now--and start protesting once he does something that deserves it. What would you be protesting now, Democracy itself?

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Anonymous wrote:It is not inconceivable that DC will be forced to implement a much more broad-based school voucher program than it currently has. That could result in a lot more kids leaving DCPS and charters for private schools, and resources being drained from the public sector.

Yes. Anticipate more privatization of schools and continuation of using DC as a petri dish for school privatization efforts. Draining of resources from the public system. Also likely to see attempts to bust teachers union and deprofessionalize our teachers.

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It's entirely possible the Republicans will punish DC for rejecting Trump and for being full of "elitists" (see: Drain the Swamp). WRT schools, they will push greater privatization in the guise of more "school choice" in the forms of vouchers and more private support for charters. Traditional DCPS schools especially those struggling in poorer neighborhoods will suffer and so will their students. And don't get me started on kids with SNs who could be better served (in DCPS) or who are not served at all (DCPCS and privates).

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I think the GOP Congress will move quickly to end DC TAG (the college subsidy).

The last senior republican who supported it was Boehner. Ryan and McConnell will need to cut things to reduce the deficit and no one has an incentive to fight for DC students, especially since a lot of the money goes to HBCUs.

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The form was probably the Impact Aid Form.

Anonymous wrote:Last week we filled out a form for our kids DCPS. As far as I could tell (because it was written in form-ese) it was asking if one of us was a federal employee because funds were available from the Dept. of Education for schools based on the number of kids of federal employees who attend.

Trump has expressed no love for the Dept. of Education and there are those that would get rid of the Department all together or drastically cut its funding.

Will those funds be available for DC public schools in the Trump Administration? Who knows?

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Anonymous wrote:At a "competent" school, PARCC testing takes 1-2 days out of the year. That's it.

Clueless. Look up ANET.

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Addresses some of your concerns
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2016/11/09/will-trump-and-an-administration-of-outsiders.html

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but I'm curious what others think about implications of Trump's presidency for DC schools. I'm one of those who moved to DC during the Obama years, and many of my neighbors in our EOTP neighborhood are also fairly new transplants. Many work in fields related to social justice, education, etc.

I'm wondering if there will be downstream effects of a Trump administration on schools. Will the influx of highly educated, liberal professionals into DC slow? Will gentrification of many EOTP neighborhoods slow, and as a result, will there be less willingness to try out neighborhood schools? What will the effects of school choice be, as stated in his 100 day plan:

"School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable."

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/10/13584390/donald-trump-first-100-days

Does this mean that more young families will choose charter or private instead of neighborhood schools?

I'm not trying to start any heated political or DCPS vs. charter arguments here--just trying to understand the implications for DC schools, and whether people think that gentrification or buy-in for neighborhood schools may slow as a result. I know none of us have a crystal ball, but wondering if there are any longtime residents or policy wonks out there who could offer some insight.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week we filled out a form for our kids DCPS. As far as I could tell (because it was written in form-ese) it was asking if one of us was a federal employee because funds were available from the Dept. of Education for schools based on the number of kids of federal employees who attend.

Trump has expressed no love for the Dept. of Education and there are those that would get rid of the Department all together or drastically cut its funding.

Will those funds be available for DC public schools in the Trump Administration? Who knows?

Sorry if this has already been answered. This should be the Impact Aid form. It's been around for decades. From what I understand it provides for supplemental funding based on federal property within a given school system. Federal property is untaxed so the in theory the county/city has decreased tax revenue for property. I'd be surprised if that got cut, esp. since many western states get money based on lands under federal management.

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Well, this is the kicker that is influencing our move out of DC. We were already considering it because our run with DCPS has been sub-par to this point. We're done stressing over the education offerings here. And now with Trump coming in we, EOTP liberals, just don't feel as tied to DC. Luckily our federal jobs have some flexibility so we're headed to the greener (and far less expensive) pastures of the midwest.

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I am thinking all that crime in and around the metro will stop -- either the city will take it seriously, or he'll send the Feds to fix it.

You're dead wrong. First of all it's not the Fed's responsibility to police most of DC. I think you'll see crime increase as policies exacerbate economic disparities and existing opportunity gaps.

Instead of the selfish DC-centric perspective, I'm more concerned about the impact on women and ethnic/racial minorities/disabled in red states where a large parts of the population have normalized offensive attitudes and behavior

Policing is not Fed's responsibility. Prosecuting, sending to jail and keeping in jail criminals, yes .

Read here for instance, about the failures, among others, of the CSOSA (the federal agency charged with watching D.C. offenders released from prison), which did not request a warrant for the arrest of a serial criminal after losing contact with him for 2 weeks after he cut off the GPS monitoring bracelet. The man eventually ended up raping a woman inside her Capitol Hill house.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/off-the-grid-how-a-violent-offender-slipped-through-the-dc-justice-system/2016/05/13/ba4ca96c-ebba-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html

FBI Police
ATF
Secret Service
Treasury Police
Federal Protective Service
US Park Police
ICE
US Capitol Police

Just off the top of my head.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not inconceivable that DC will be forced to implement a much more broad-based school voucher program than it currently has. That could result in a lot more kids leaving DCPS and charters for private schools, and resources being drained from the public sector.

Yes. Anticipate more privatization of schools and continuation of using DC as a petri dish for school privatization efforts. Draining of resources from the public system. Also likely to see attempts to bust teachers union and deprofessionalize our teachers.

You act like this is a bad thing. Maybe people will actually want to stay here and use the schools if there're vouchers. Don't you listen to people on this site? Or do you just troll to spread 1200 1st ST NE propaganda?

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully he'll keep the vouchers going and dramatically expand the program so people have viable choices and want to stay in DC.

Lets say you get a $10K voucher. Where will you go?

Any parochial school. Which is a heck of a lot better than any DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully he'll keep the vouchers going and dramatically expand the program so people have viable choices and want to stay in DC.

Lets say you get a $10K voucher. Where will you go?

Any parochial school. Which is a heck of a lot better than any DCPS.

Studies have shown that parochial schools are inferior to public schools. Furthermore, let's not forget that the Catholic Church allowed child abusers to sexually abuse children and hid this fact for years, destroying many lives in the process.

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Here is the study discussing the inferiority of Parochial schools as compared to public schools.

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/study-catholic-schools-not-superior-to-public-schools/

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully he'll keep the vouchers going and dramatically expand the program so people have viable choices and want to stay in DC.

Lets say you get a $10K voucher. Where will you go?

Any parochial school. Which is a heck of a lot better than any DCPS.

Yes, well, there is a long wait list of kids who don't need vouchers to attend at the two that are decent. So you don't get in. Now where will you go?