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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will be a DC Council hearing on October 26 to discuss ending mayoral control of DCPS.  Please sign up to testify against ending Mayoral control. There is no rational for ending Mayoral control other than giving more power to outside organizations over DCPS.  Nobody has made the case for why the current management of DCPS needs to be change. Indeed  - every single other public work is administered directly by the Mayor.

Mayoral control is DIRECTLY related to school reopening after covid.  Without mayoral control, I do not believe DCPS would have opened at all last year, similar to SFUSD.

More information:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chicago-schools-lori-lightfoot-mayoral-control/2021/02/18/ff452110-7158-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

This is old research, but it explains the issue of mayoral control of schools, and why it is beneficial:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/news/2013/03/22/57723/top-5-things-to-know-about-mayoral-control-of-schools/

Washington Post on the current efforts in DC:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/undermining-mayoral-control-of-dc-schools-wont-make-things-better-for-students/2021/03/07/0fcb87d4-7bbf-11eb-b3d1-9e5aa3d5220c_story.html

You can sign up to submit written or oral testimony here:  Sign up here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUODdcp7a-VInaR5aSlR4_wEqL46YZ4bj65-LjKWTXMowpZQ/viewform?fbzx=-6710434939403137657

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First of all - it's "RATIONALE" not "rational"

secondly -- Mayoral control has been an unmitigated failure.  Public schools have become politically driven rather than focused on better student outcomes across the board.  Thanks for the heads up so I can testify to end Mayoral control.  [/quote]

You'll need to go into a bit more detail about A) what exactly you  mean by "politically driven" and B) why ending  mayoral control -- and handing over control to an elected school board -- would make it less politically driven?  Or do you just mean something like making the Chancellor only dismissable for cause? [/quote]

I don't "need" to do anything  :roll:

Educators should drive decision making on policy. Educators should run schools and school boards are far more accountable to citizens than a mayoral appointees.  Political appointees cut out meaningful and necessary voices in the process with little real accountability to school communities.  I guess there's accountability if you game the boundary system for your own kid, but there's no accountability for failing to deliver better outcomes for students, however desperate the effort to quantify any measurable "success" through questionable metrics (spoiler alert -- rich kids test better than poor kids).[/quote]

no no nonono no no no. educators are not experts in education policy. sorry, no. i say this as a person who is a former teacher with a degree in education who now works with experts in ed policy and ed research.[/quote]

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