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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quick summary: crowding exists, we're not going to do anything about it. [/quote]

Yup. As long as scores stay high, DCPS will keep kicking the can down Wisconsin Ave.

How is any of this supposed to get sorted when the DME and chancellor aren't confirmed,b principals are on 1 year contracts, charters are separately authorized, OSSE isn't independent aaaaaand the next mayor could change all the players.

Has mayoral control run its course?[/quote]

FWIW Ferebee is on the record w/the Post saying that there is a culture of fear in schools. His observations seem pretty spot on to me. Whether he can address these and other challenges is, of course, a whole different issue.

An excerpt from today's WaPo story https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/can-the-acting-chancellor-of-dc-public-schools-earn-your-trust-hes-going-to-try/2019/02/10/b1d2b244-2579-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html?utm_term=.35b450880807

"...Ferebee, who is slated to earn $280,000 a year, insists he would be a champion for neighborhood schools in the city and that he has no intention of replicating in the District what he did in Indianapolis.

Sure, he said, he has thoughts and observations about the District. It’s just that he’s not ready to say how they will translate into concrete ideas.

He noticed that some schools have significant enrollment of special-education students, while others have few. He thinks there could be a policy solution to remedy inequities this may cause.

He knows he needs to address aging technology in schools and wants to think about effectively integrating it into classrooms.

[b]He has sensed from teachers and principals that a culture of fear exists — fear that with one misstep, they could lose their jobs.

So he wants to reevaluate the practice of awarding principals one-year contracts, and he plans to examine the city’s IMPACT evaluation system for educators — one of the first in the country to tie teacher bonuses and job security to annual evaluation scores.

But Ferebee is cautious to stop short of saying exactly what he thinks about IMPACT. When pressed by a teacher at a recent community meeting, he said he is “committed to an evaluation process that is fair.”

“It could be a scenario where IMPACT is not broken, it’s just how it’s being implemented,” he later said in an interview. “And I think that is still to be determined.”
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So instead of offering concrete policy ideas, Ferebee said he is first trying to build trust in a school system that’s lacking in it.

“You can only move at the rate of trust,” he said.[/quote]

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