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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Relevant recommendations from the final report are pasted below.  Interestingly, the Mayor's response accepting the Committee's recommendations stated that "[t]he other accepted recommendations that impact public school assignment and access have an extended timeline and may require additional community engagement and further investigation by agencies. For those, I have asked DCPS alongside DME to develop an implementation plan to be posted on the DCPS and DME websites by August 2024."

I've done some searching but haven't seen any "implementation plan" posted on the DCPS or DME websites.  Has anyone seen this?

[b]Recommendation 20[/b] 
DCPS and public charter schools with less than the citywide average of at-risk students enrolled (currently 52%) should set aside existing lottery seats for students meeting the at-risk criteria. For DCPS prekindergarten (PK) seats at neighborhood schools, the designated seats would only apply to in boundary (IB) students – to avoid creating capacity challenges in by-right grades. (For those schools that do not typically fill their PK seats with IB students, they could choose to designate seats for out of boundary (OOB) at risk (AR) students). For K-12 seats in DCPS boundary schools and for all citywide DCPS and charter seats, the policy would extend to all grades. The number and percentage of seats designated for at-risk students would be determined by the school and the LEA. The recommendation does not call for offering more lottery seats than schools were planning, so it would not contribute to overcrowding at the existing schools. This recommendation would not change the current in boundary rights for compulsory grade students (grades K to 12). In alignment with the current practice for designated seats, these seats would be held past the lottery date (no sooner than June 1), so that families that missed the lottery deadline still have a chance to take advantage of this priority.

[b]Recommendation 21 [/b]
DCPS should consider policies that support socioeconomic integration across the school system. The policy of “pairing” adjacent elementary schools with extreme differences in at risk enrollment is one such policy. DCPS should consider this when doing so would both support socioeconomic integration and manage enrollment, capacity, and utilization challenges. This is just one policy out of many to support socioeconomic integration. The policy of “pairing” would combine the boundaries of two nearby schools and designate one building for early elementary grades and the other for upper elementary grades. The Advisory Committee notes, supported by research, that integration benefits all students. That said, before implementing such a policy, DCPS should engage deeply with both existing school communities over an extended time frame to build culture and address the various operational details.

[b]Recommendation 21.1[/b] 
DCPS shall explore the feasibility of this policy for Maury ES and Miner ES, where there is a 52- percentage point difference in at-risk enrollment between the schools that are located three blocks of each other. Pairing the schools could provide additional PK classrooms for Maury (where in boundary demand exceeds available seats) and improve the utilization at Miner ES in addition to the socioeconomic integration benefits. Community feedback has been mixed, and universally families want implementation information to understand the potential impact on each of the schools, including staffing, leadership, funding and Title 1 status, and extracurricular offerings. DCPS should launch a Maury-Miner Community Working Group consisting of a diverse body of parent teacher organization (PTO), local school advisory team (LSAT), and community members no earlier than SY2026-27 to help facilitate whether it is feasible to implement this policy at these two schools and, if so, determine the logistics to do so. This timeline takes into account two school years of consistent leadership at both schools.

[b]Recommendation 21.2 [/b]
Irrespective of the community working group being convened, DCPS shall implement the at-risk set aside at Maury ES (as indicated in Recommendation 20) to help support socioeconomic integration at the school. DCPS should consider the impact of the at risk set aside at Maury ES as well as the enrollment, utilization, and at-risk percentage at Miner ES before convening the Maury-Miner Community Working Group.[/quote]

No info on the implementation plan?[/quote]

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