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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Families,

I'm on my 3rd round w/ DC schools lottery and I suspect I have 3 more rounds ahead of me, as my children get older. How crazy is it that we have to win the lottery to get a good education? (and even as I give offerings to the lottery gods, I am not sure which school - whether charter or DCPS - I think is the right one!)

The reality is that there are two systems and that choice is really just choice to gamble... I haven't seen much in way of coordinated support from DCPS/PCSB to address this world of 'choice', so I'm taking this problem to science - data science.

In order to make this work, volunteer data scientists and programmers need data (our data, about our children's schools) that OSSE makes partially public. I asked the Mayor yesterday for support in opening up the data in time for an event this weekend, where volunteer data scientists and developers can spend 24 hours working on education problems.

It's an incredible opportunity for the Mayor and city leadership committed to education to take advantage of an army of volunteers (260 so far!) with results by Sunday! It's also an opportunity for Mayor Gray to make good on his commitment to transparency.

I'm hoping to get your help in supporting this. Please reach out to the Mayor, to OSSE and to city council asking for them to provide this data. Nothing is sensitive nor does it compromise privacy of students.

My letter to the Mayor + council and OSSE (w/ their contact info) is posted here:  [url]http://chpspo.org/2013/02/19/open-data-day-and-dc-education-open-letter-to-mayor-gray%E2%80%8F-by-sandra-moscoso/  [/url]

Grateful for your help in reaching out, supporting, and sharing with everyone you know who thinks educating our children should be a given, not left to lotteries.

Thank you!

Sandra
(mom to 2 children in DC Public Schools)

[url]http://chpspo.org/2013/02/19/open-data-day-and-dc-education-open-letter-to-mayor-gray%E2%80%8F-by-sandra-moscoso/[/url]
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I honestly do not get your point and suspect that you are against school choice which offers greater opportunities to DC students. I have no desire to see more coordination between DCPS and DC charter schools since the result may be DCPS trying to co-opt charter schools and therefore ruining a good thing. There is currently talk by some DC council members of trying to slow the growth of charters and of more coordination which I am totally against. A charter school has provided the best opportunity for my DC and for many others. I think the lottery situation will be ameliorated by more school choices. I do agree that we should should have more data open to the public though.[/quote]

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