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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Lewis-George is about as left wing as they come. She will keep schools as is. She will adamantly oppose raising academic standards or flunking kids or creating admissions standards for some schools. People like her see all that as racist because it will disproportionately hurt black kids. [/quote]

Source? Or just your perception based on....?  She is a Walls graduate and sounds like she had a positive experience so I'm curious where you are coming from other the progressive label.[/quote]

DP but she's not for raising academic standards, repealing Ferebee's disastrous "no such thing as a zero" policy, or tracking.  She's never once advocated for those things.  The only things she talks about w/r/t schools are 1) improving run-down facilities (good, fine, reasonable), 2) social emotional learning (good in theory, but already pretty well addressed in DC curriculum), and 3) raising ECE pay by making the Covid bonuses permanent (not opposed to this as a policy, but she framed it very misleadingly which has left a bad taste in my mouth).

That's it.  She has a positions page on her website and under education it segues almost immediately to childcare - she's never once said anything about improving DCPS academically, so I think i[b]t's perfectly valid for PP to say she's going to stick with the status quo[/b].[/quote]

JLG has been in office for five years. She's at a seat at the table for *half* of Bowser's time as mayor. If JLG actually supported raising academic standards or tracking or doing something about discipline, you would have heard it by now. Her silence should speak volumes. The only thing she's for is spending more money on schools, which is great, but money is not the issue. DC schools are usually pretty nice. Even the bad ones. Democrats in general tend not to stint on school spending. [/quote]

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