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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why OSSE can’t get their sh*t together. Is it corruption, incompetence, staff churn, or lack of internal processes/responsibilities?[/quote]

Everyone is afraid of the mayor and just doing her bidding from the DME on down

To actually fix education in DC you need real independence [/quote]

This is a feature, not a bug of mayoral control.

But for those of us who have lived here 2+ decades, we've had independent control. We've had an elected school board. None really worked any better. [/quote]

Here's the thing schools are actually much better than they used to be and frankly the majority of DCPS is low income.  DCUM needs aren't relevant.  Frankly DCPS doesn't care about overcrowding WOTP because the population is so small compared to the rest of DCPS.

And I hate to break it to you but in schools across the country class sizes are bigger in wealthy areas and smaller in low income areas.  It's what is best for society.  Otherwise you can copy what folks out in McLean VA are doing.  Complaining about class sizes but nothing is changing again the population is too small compared to the rest of Fairfax County/DC[/quote]

This.  DCPS is much better than it used to be, and schools are still improving.  People forget.

Also, the problems with DC schools are, in large part, the problems of DC writ large--namely, poverty, childhood hunger, unemployment, lack of stability, crime, etc.  The schools can only do so much to cope with the problems that the kids show up with.  These are larger social problems that pretty much every city and state has a hard time grappling with.  Schools full of kids who are hungry, who don't have stable living arrangements, whose parents are absent or working two or three jobs, who live in unsafe neighborhoods, etc., will struggle.  Schools full of kids who show up fed and ready to learn will do better.  There's no magic solution.  [/quote]

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