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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Post article went up yesterday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-is-misspending-millions-of-dollars-intended-to-help-the-citys-poorest-students/2018/04/14/6006c02a-3788-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?utm_term=.0d14c5c37fe4

Basically, at-risk funds are being used for standard/core positions, that should be funded form the base budget allocation. instead of being available for additional non/core uses at the discretion of each school

DCPS continues to be a hot mess[/quote]

This whole process is unfair anyway, schools like Deal, JKLM can raise thousands through their PTA to hire teachers for these positions. I used to work at Murch providing support to students who needed reading remediation. Then at the end of the year we compare schools as if the metrics are all the same, which downtown knows they are not. Of course we then blame teachers at mainly EOTP for being ineffective teachers, fire all the teachers, the principal, or some other form of reconstitution and wonder why we don't make progress. Meanwhile, there are all kinds of funds coming in to some of the WOTP schools for not just ed. positions but materials. One year a parent contact at a tech company donated new computers and printers. There is no equity anywhere because DCPS doesn't acknowledge the truth and uses bogus data to measure progress. [/quote]

And when we are comparing PARCC scores, we are not taking into consideration that one child in one school received extra tutoring or support through a funded aide position and the other school did not. Then we compare supposedly students who are alike, except they are not. During the start of IMPACT, I brought this up with Mr. Kamras, who has now departed ... Seems like nothing has changed!

What’s the answer?  Refuse donations in the name of equity? [/quote]

Other districts do not allow PTAs to hire teachers.  Other than DCPS, I've never heard of that.  [/quote]

Maybe, but I still don’t see how it helps DCPS to turn away donations.[/quote]

Because it makes it impossible to have correct data.  How can DCPS know how much money to spend per pupil with these shenanigans?  [/quote][/quote]

Nobody is turning away donations.  They pay for other stuff and that frees up the funding for staff.  And it seems that at some schools they do pay for staff, at least aides if not teachers.

https://mauryelementary.com/pta/initiatives/

Staff Our School Campaign:This year, the campaign is being called “Staff Our School”, and the funds raised will be used solely to help to cover the over $50,000 the PTA needs to pay for aides.[/quote]

For the record, Maury has a high percentage of at-risk kids but is not Title I, so the aides benefit all kids. I agree that PTA fundraising is problematic but Maury spends its money well. [/quote]

I'm not trying to criticize Maury.  I'm just pointing out that it's incorrect to say PTAs can't fund staff.  I'm not sure what accounting they need to do per various DCPS rules, but they are explicitly raising money for staff.  [/quote]

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