DC now in CDC moderate range for schools - what will this mean for reopening?

[Anonymous]

Agreed. People are leaving DC if they can. We are still too tied to hubs but considering it too. There is IPL where family lives in a blue state.

[Anonymous]

DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

I think DCPS actually does care a lot about rich, high achieving kids leaving, despite the DCUM chorus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

Won't other rich white people just move in? Maybe ones without kids? I don't know what churn looks like in the rich end of the income distribution.

[Anonymous]

On this note, are there school-by-school stats on changes of enrollment from 2019/20 to 2020/21?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On this note, are there school-by-school stats on changes of enrollment from 2019/20 to 2020/21?

Not sure if this year's stats are audited yet, but also the enrollment figures will be as of early October 2020, so it won't include all the people who have pulled out since then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On this note, are there school-by-school stats on changes of enrollment from 2019/20 to 2020/21?

Not sure if this year's stats are audited yet, but also the enrollment figures will be as of early October 2020, so it won't include all the people who have pulled out since then.

Here's the prelim info:

Enrollment at DC Public Schools (DCPS) decreased from 51,037 students in the 2019-20 school year to 49,958 students in the 2020-21 school year, a 2.11 percent decrease compared to final, audited numbers released in early 2020. Enrollment at DC’s public charter schools increased from 43,518 students in the 2019-20 school year to 44,100 students in the 2020-19 school year, a 1.34 percent increase over final, audited numbers for last school year released in early 2020.

Doesn't sound like much of a drop overall.

https://osse.dc.gov/release/bowser-administration-releases-preliminary-dc-enrollment-numbers-2020-21-school-year#:~:text=Enrollment%20at%20DC%20Public%20Schools,numbers%20released%20in%20early%202020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

I think DCPS actually does care a lot about rich, high achieving kids leaving, despite the DCUM chorus.

These MC/UMC are the reason test scores have been rising. I would hope they care about these kids leaving DCPS, although I'm not sure if they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

Won't other rich white people just move in? Maybe ones without kids? I don't know what churn looks like in the rich end of the income distribution.

DP. Sure they'll move into Logan and other fun areas, but childless couples aren't buying our SFH's in UNW. This failure to fully reopen schools is really a stain on the Mayor, and she's to blame as much as WTU. She could have reopened sooner and more fully, building confidence in DCPS and making her city even more valuable. Instead, many are fleeing DCPS when she had the opportunity to attract more families by keeping schools open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

Please show me the abundance of real estate in upper NW as evidence that people are moving out and not right back in.

Also, DC would rather have childless rich people that pay taxes and don’t use schools.

And, we all know the super rich don’t pay that much in taxes anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On this note, are there school-by-school stats on changes of enrollment from 2019/20 to 2020/21?

Not sure if this year's stats are audited yet, but also the enrollment figures will be as of early October 2020, so it won't include all the people who have pulled out since then.

Here's the prelim info:

Enrollment at DC Public Schools (DCPS) decreased from 51,037 students in the 2019-20 school year to 49,958 students in the 2020-21 school year, a 2.11 percent decrease compared to final, audited numbers released in early 2020. Enrollment at DC’s public charter schools increased from 43,518 students in the 2019-20 school year to 44,100 students in the 2020-19 school year, a 1.34 percent increase over final, audited numbers for last school year released in early 2020.

Doesn't sound like much of a drop overall.

https://osse.dc.gov/release/bowser-administration-releases-preliminary-dc-enrollment-numbers-2020-21-school-year#:~:text=Enrollment%20at%20DC%20Public%20Schools,numbers%20released%20in%20early%202020.

This is the biggest drop in more than a decade. And if schools don't fully reopen this fall, the decline will accelerate. DC is increasingly becoming an outlier when it comes to school openings. We are way behind even other heavily Democratic areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

Please show me the abundance of real estate in upper NW as evidence that people are moving out and not right back in.

Also, DC would rather have childless rich people that pay taxes and don’t use schools.

And, we all know the super rich don’t pay that much in taxes anyway.

Don't kid yourself. DC is extremely reliant on taxes paid by the rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is much less appealing now with remote work, no IPL, and far away from childcare help from family. So many who could leave already have, and many more will over the summer. Of course, no one really cares about the rich white people leaving again, except all the developers who will be stuck with empty expensive real estate.

DC’s government is going to have to start caring, if enough higher income people leave. That’s the tax base that pays for all of the services for lower income people.

Bowser doesn’t care about public school education very much, but she does care about tax revenue.

Please show me the abundance of real estate in upper NW as evidence that people are moving out and not right back in.

Also, DC would rather have childless rich people that pay taxes and don’t use schools.

And, we all know the super rich don’t pay that much in taxes anyway.

Don't kid yourself. DC is extremely reliant on taxes paid by the rich.

The extremely rich pay less than their share in taxes. But they still pay a lot (often; prior resident of the Oval Office notwithstanding).

[Anonymous]

Our NW elementary school enrollment is down something like 34% percent from last year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On this note, are there school-by-school stats on changes of enrollment from 2019/20 to 2020/21?

Not sure if this year's stats are audited yet, but also the enrollment figures will be as of early October 2020, so it won't include all the people who have pulled out since then.

Here's the prelim info:

Enrollment at DC Public Schools (DCPS) decreased from 51,037 students in the 2019-20 school year to 49,958 students in the 2020-21 school year, a 2.11 percent decrease compared to final, audited numbers released in early 2020. Enrollment at DC’s public charter schools increased from 43,518 students in the 2019-20 school year to 44,100 students in the 2020-19 school year, a 1.34 percent increase over final, audited numbers for last school year released in early 2020.

Doesn't sound like much of a drop overall.

https://osse.dc.gov/release/bowser-administration-releases-preliminary-dc-enrollment-numbers-2020-21-school-year#:~:text=Enrollment%20at%20DC%20Public%20Schools,numbers%20released%20in%20early%202020.