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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kojo did a show on this topic - and a former Janney PTA co-president was on the panel -

Really interesting discussion - love how Kojo nails it by saying that DCPS turns a blind eye because it doesn't want more-connected, knowledgeable about influence-wielding parents to start demanding an increase in DCPS funding (which would then benefit all students - from affluent and non-affluent families)

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2017-04-27/how-pta-fundraising-may-exacerbate-school-inequities[/quote]

I'll listen to it later, but please tell me Kojo was smart enough to pull the aftercare figures from the PTA budgets....[/quote]

Kojo did not need to point this out, as one of the first things the guy from Janney mentioned was that money generated to pay for aftercare at Janney is not really PTA money.  The lady on the other side didn't really apologize for over-dramatizing the situation, but everyone listening knew she was full of it.  Janney also pointed out that DCPS pays for the aftercare programs for many low-income schools in DC, while Janney has to self-fund theirs.  D.C. is not really a good example for what's going on in the country as a whole.  We're already socialist.[/quote]

Good. I'll listen tonight.[/quote]

The CAP person really wasn't good and just spouted off a lot of platitudes about "educational disparaties" without actually saying anything substantive.  It made me question CAP generally, which I've always thought was a solid think tank.  For example, Kojo asked her whether she thought the disparaties in PTA funding contributed to poor student performance.  She said yes they did because studies show that if more money was invested in poorly-performing schools, they would do better.  That wasn't the question.  No one doubts that many of these schools are underfunded.  But that doesn't necessarily mean that PTA funding of wealthier elementary schools hurts poor schools.  The question is also what are these PTAs funding in the first place.
The former PTA president tried to talk more specifically about DCPS routine underfunding of schools, but the CAP representative just talked in generalities and wanted to attack "rich PTAs" as a boogeyman.  [/quote]

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