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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a clarification - the above note didn’t come from the school itself which can’t comment on what is happening, but from an ad hoc group of parents. And good for those families.

OSSE sucks.

And yet Grosso, Mendelsohn and Chen all want to give them more power and [b]autonomy[/b]. Why would we do that?[/quote]

Because autonomy is the only way to ensure that OSSE would actually hold the schools accountable for enrollment. I've seen lots of bad paperwork over the years in DCPS. I assumed DE had the same thing. There's no incentive for DCPS to turn away students or charge tuition. High enrollment, high scores, high graduation - by any means necessary.

OSSE - remember, same boss as DCPS - only rocked the DE boat because they had to after the Antwan Wilson transfer fiasco.

It's easy to bash OSSE, but a State Superintendent office is a critical function. DC [u]must[/u] have one, like all states, for federal funding and legal compliance reasons. Things that should not be tied directly to the vagaries of political whims.

A more autonomous OSSE would have gone after DE's messy records long before Wilson was even hired.

There are talented and dedicated people working in OSSE despite the political shenanigans. They can never fully do their jobs if there's always a political override.

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