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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I agree that charters DGAF about parents, and only seem vaguely accountable to their boards (if the board actually cares), to whom is DCPS accountable?  The mayor?  It doesn't seem like they responded to parents any better than charters.[/quote]

Mayor, City Council, news media. Better than literally nothing.[/quote]

But what's the practical difference if the mayor and city council are asleep at the wheel the way they were last school year? There was a huge leadership void surrounding the question of school reopening last year, which let the union dictate it's demand for DCPS and gave no guidance or pressure for charters.

Also, charters do have ultimate accountability to the mayor and council, because they regulate public education in the district: this year, our charter is repeatedly citing the mayor's MANDATE as the reason for offering 100% in-person with no virtual option (except medical exemption). I think the more consequential failure last year was on the mayor/council for not creating an expectation/mandate that schools be opened in a certain way by a certain date. This left individual schools without the political cover to push through a more aggressive reopening, when many of their parents were quite happy with continuing DL.[/quote]

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