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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand things are better than 10 years ago but they still aren't good.

- How many damaged (ie fired/quit from other districts) have led DCPS under this one Mayor?
- Why can't the Council do effective oversight on basic things like how many nurses and librarians schools have?
- Why are school modernizations still being used as political tools?

Sometimes it is easier for a group of people to make "hard decisions." If the Mayor changes the school boundaries, it could cost her the election. If a board changes school boundaries, it might cost some of them their elections but they could share that risk. The other thing is public education should be a bit more steady and changes should be like steering a ship. Mayoral control leads to a lot of sharp turns and means that DCPS does not have to do long term planning well (because the Mayor doesn't care about DCPS in 2030).[/quote]

I don't know what you are trying to ask with that first question.

C[b]an you describe what "effective oversight" looks like -- perhaps provide an example? [/b] Is that cured by school board control?

I can't understand why improvement should NOT be something that a politician discusses as a win.  So...what's the point of your third question?

I will give you that shared political risk might mean more steady changes.

Regarding long-term planning:  no elected official with term limits cares about "the thing" beyond their term.  So that complaint is also true with school board control.[/quote]

An independent OSSE with oversight power over the Mayor's DCPS Chancellor.

OR, an independent School Investigator General office with subpoena power over DCPS, OSSE, and PCSB.

None of the people who started this thread actually will be in favor of those things, because they don't care about improving the schools -- too many in this DCUM thread are rightwingers whose real agenda is to damage DC public education.
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