Reply to WaPo magazine article on the lottery

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "WaPo magazine article on the lottery"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Only 27% are enrolled in their IB school."

So despite hundreds of millions in renovations, expansion of Pk3, students returning to DCPS for HS ... the percentage of students attending their IB has only increased 2% since the last boundary review.

[/quote]

For the last time, parent don’t choose schools based on renovations!! If it’s underperforming, lacks rigor etc, no one cares how shiny and new it is.[/quote]

And yet, that's where we have invested, as a city. Shiny and a zillion bells and whistles probably isn't needed, but fixing dilapidated buildings is.

We do need better options, and that starts with investing in DC adults who need supports and skills and safe neighborhoods and good paying jobs to enter and stay in the workforce. Without that, the underperforming schools are fighting an uphill battle that they will not win.[/quote]

How do you propose that under-educated DC adults without marketable skills get and keep "good paying jobs"? The time to think about that is in elementary school.[/quote]

DC Infrastructure Academy provides free training for CDL, auto mechanic, energy and utilities.
UDC has free career training.
The HOPE Project offer free IT training for DC residents.

These are just a few of the programs I can think of off the top of my head; there are several other programs available. There are plenty of opportunities for under-educated adults to get marketable skills. [/quote]

The push for low-cost, quality child care from age 0 would make these programs more realistic. These problems are interrelated and their children need help from birth, not elementary school. [/quote]

I heard there are childcare vouchers in MD. A sitter I knew worked in a daycare where a good chunk of the families paid using those vouchers. Is there a similar system here? A city-run childcare system with fees on a sliding scale would be amazing.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics