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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current situation in DCPS is:

There is a state education agency, like a state department of education.  This agency is OSSE.  The mayor appoints the OSSE head and has complete control over OSSE: the OSSE head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

DCPS is headed by a chancellor. The mayor appoints the chancellor and has complete control over DCPS: the DCPS Chancellor head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Both DCPS and OSSE report to the Deputy Mayor for Education.  Currently ex-McKinsey consultant Paul Kihn.  The mayor appoints the deputy mayor for education and the deputy mayor for education serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Additionally, important during COVID times:
The agency responsible for health is DC Health.  The mayor appoints the DC Health head and has complete control over DC Health: the DC Health head serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Do we see the problem here?!?!?!

The mayor has total control over every education agency.

When stuff goes wrong, the mayor and chancellor and DME can just.... lie about it.  In fact, they DO lie about it.

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What we need is more democracy.  We need an elected head of education who is not the mayor.  Directly elect the DCPS Chancellor.

OR, we need OSSE split off from mayoral control so they can exert oversight over the mayor when her people are making mistakes and lying about them.

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OSSE was part of advocating for virtual education this fall for everyone who wanted it, which would not have been practicable for schools. They seem extremely disconnected. and ar I could really envision a board resembling OSSE taking control and that being a disaster. Accountability will go completely out the window..You have to look also at the recent track record of progress on DCPS since mayoral control began (fasting improving school district). The DC Council has been really clueless as far as trying to impose policies on DCPS (e.g. upping the testing mandate and expanding virtual learning with no funding provided). Of all of these actors the mayor has been the one to ensure that schools opened.[/quote]

OSSE or the SBOE?[/quote]

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