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Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools to the tune of $9,000+ per student. Half the kids in this city go to charters.

She HATES charters schools. She doesn't think they should exist.
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This.  Exactly this.  Over half of the kids using public education in DC attend charter schools.   DC has had over 20 years of trying to improve its regular public schools to compete with that statistic and lessen families' attraction to charters.  This they have not done, because of  DCPS' always inefficient central office coupled with the teachers' unions.   If you want to destroy the charter system---which has managed to keep middle class families in the cities---then vote for JLG.  (And Mamdani had virtually no education platform at all.)  [/quote]

The city already shortchanges charter schools in a million different ways, but we've never had a mayor who is anti-charter like Janeese is anti-charter. [/quote]

What's the worst that could happen? She runs off middle-class families, DC loses population and tax base just as Downtown businesses are struggling and there's a hostile presence in the White House?

Its curious to see if she sticks to her guns or if reality provides some quick moderation. [/quote]

I would love to get rid of the charter schools - if all the parents who were intelligent enough to know how to work the charter school system had sent their kids to DCPS - we would have better schools across the board.   And less division of resources and less infighting.  Republicans forced them on us as an experiment.  However, please gut DCPS Central and start over.   [/quote]

This is a terrible idea and would blow up in your face. You get rid of charter schools, families will move to VA and MD. The city is 10 mins square - you can’t keep people in it. Without a robust charter network, people leave when they have kids and the schools (including DCPS schools) get worse. Thats what it was like in the 90s - anyone who cared about education sent their kids to private school or moved. And the schools were just awful.

You want to improve DCPS schools and decrease charters? First of all, we’re already on that path - look at the length of charter school waitlists now vs 10 years ago. Secondly - work on DCPS middle schools and do more to keep families who care about education in them, including advanced classes and more opportunities. More and more kids will stay. But you have to use a carrot not a stick or people just move.

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