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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catania has outlined his vision of big change for the schools. He sponsored seven education bills in front of the council, and his education platform is basically the same.

Unfortunately, much if that vision is unsupported by research. He wants to hold students back a grade, but that hasn't been found to be effective.

https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-06.pdf

One of his bills proposed to turn failing schools over to "third parties" I.e. charters. As we have seen, there are charters, and then there are charters. The lack of financial transparency from charter management companies who might apply for such a takeover has proven to be very troubling. This part of the plan looks to me like a transfer of public funds to a few private businesspeople with an unclear benefit to kids.

He's going to throw the lottery into disarray by tossing the proposed new boundaries in favor of some as yet to be determined redo that will magically not move any child to a school that has lower test scores than their current IB schools. I'd be interested to see the math on that.

I don't mean to suggest that Bowsr has a more coherent plan. She may do less damage.

Sadly, there is a ton of research out there on what does work: 
1) universal pre-k (see the work of Nobel Laureate James Heckman), 
2) Targeted feedback for teachers plus proven curricula (see Murnane and Duncan)

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/how-public-schools-can-fight-back-against-inequality/283669/

3) NYC has had success with the small high school model

Yet, you won't hear any DC mayoral candidate proposing any of these proven models.[/quote]

I almost bought this. I like programs that work too and small schools as an option for parents. We can have quality teachers, good curricula, and filled schools with Catania. Bowser's backing of WTU shows she cares more about getting elected than results for parents and students.[/quote]

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