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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  S[b]o, yes, if we are serious about improving education in DC, we need to be investing, not only in services for kids, but for their families, including housing, employment, food, and medical care, so that every kid can show up to school ready to learn.  But that's not something DCPS can do, that's something that the people of DC have to demand from their government.[/b]

AMEN! Not only do we need to do this, but we also need to stop expecing schools to solve these problems at the same time.[/quote]

Agreed- the problem is that it's not just about making the investments in terms of money (although that is serious and honestly difficult to foresee a majority of voting residents supporting- because it would mean significant tax increases).  It's also about creating and maintaining fully functional programs that give the deep assistance needed, and I don't see the existing agencies having the ability to do that, quite honestly.

Have heard generally good things about the Harlem Children's Zone/Promise Neighborhood model, but not too many in-depth critiques or alternatives.  It seems like that's the sort of thing that's necessary on a large scale.  I can't see how that's done well here unless all of the child/family support work is wrapped together into a new agency or non-profit which has shown the ability to run something like this at scale.  But that appears to be what is needed.[/quote]

After all, we haven't even shown a willingness to put hundreds of millions or billions into making physical upgrades to housing that would help children immediately.  And this is relatively easy to do because there is already an infrastructure of contractors/developers who could do this work if they had the money (and didn't have to deal with the well-meaning but harmful DC hiring rules).

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/housing-complex/article/21060618/as-dc-weighs-how-to-fix-its-public-housing-families-keep-getting-sicker[/quote]

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