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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of us in wards with poorer DCPS schools, I feel like yelling IT DOESN'T MATTER. This is just rearranging the deck chairs on an already sinking ship. So now I am inbounds for one poorly performing school rather than having the choice of three poorly performing schools. When are either mayoral candidate going to talk about actually improving neighborhood schools, and not just messing with the boundaries?[/quote]

I agree and this is a discussion that DCPS, not the DME, needs to have and this is an area where who is Mayor makes a very real difference.

For everyone who says, well okay, now I can be comfortable with a Mayor Bowser, we would be missing a huge opportunity where there is so much focus on improving schools.  What can we do to improve schools now that the DME has given up on trying to force families to move schools (for the most part).  How can DCPS transform these schools into ones that families want their children to attend.  How can they build the pathway from successful ESs to successful MSs to successful HSs.

I heard Catania speak last week and he talked about the fact that something unique about the Wilson/Deal/Feeder ESs is that the principals speak across levels about aligning their curriculums.  Hardy may be part of this as well.  The point was this does not happen everywhere.  What can we change so that this is the norm, not unique.  What other practices can we change that make a difference?

It looks to me as if they have not done enough to bring together cohorts of successful ES students together in MS on capital hill.  I think we should all raise heck about that.

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