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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current situation in DCPS is:

There is a state education agency, like a state department of education.  This agency is OSSE.  The mayor appoints the OSSE head and has complete control over OSSE: the OSSE head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

DCPS is headed by a chancellor. The mayor appoints the chancellor and has complete control over DCPS: the DCPS Chancellor head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Both DCPS and OSSE report to the Deputy Mayor for Education.  Currently ex-McKinsey consultant Paul Kihn.  The mayor appoints the deputy mayor for education and the deputy mayor for education serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Additionally, important during COVID times:
The agency responsible for health is DC Health.  The mayor appoints the DC Health head and has complete control over DC Health: the DC Health head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Do we see the problem here?!?!?!

The mayor has total control over every education agency.

When stuff goes wrong, the mayor and chancellor and DME can just.... lie about it.  In fact, they DO lie about it.

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What we need is more democracy.  We need an elected head of education who is not the mayor.  Directly elect the DCPS Chancellor.

OR, we need OSSE split off from mayoral control so they can exert oversight over the mayor when her people are making mistakes and lying about them.

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Do you have evidence of the lying?  I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility but it would good to see some expose or something.

There are too many people on DCUM who see conspiracies when what they are really looking at is ineptitude (see: Covid report timeframes).  [/quote]

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