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[quote=Anonymous]The problems in DCPS are not caused by mayoral control. Schools were not better before mayoral control. There was not greater equity. I don’t understand why “end mayoral control” has become a rallying cry for people who are invested in greater equity, treating teachers well, ensuring schools get the funding and support they need. Schools in DC haven’t had any of that for decades, well before mayoral control was established.

But the problem is that mayoral control also doesn’t fix problems in the system unless you have a mayor willing to do things like strip out the dead weight in central office, get tough with redrawing boundaries to address overcrowding, make greater demands on charters, and explore possibly unpopular policies that might actually address equity issues in DC.

DC schools need a revolution. I know lots of people on these boards who have quietly bought their way into tolerable situations in DCPS will cry foul because they don’t want to jeopardize what they’ve won. And I’m sympathetic because to someone extent that describes my family too. But the pandemic has laid bare for me how broken this school district is in terms of being able problem solve, meet kids needs, negotiate compromises between stakeholders. I want a mayor and chancellor to come in and turn it on its head. I’m not done Rhee acolyte but I appreciate that she viewed DCPS as having solveable problems. Everyone since has just pretended it fine. It’s not! We need to fix it.[/quote]

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