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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many charter schools serving lower income students and doing well also have extended day programs and Saturday programs.  Yet, when DCPS suggested doing the same, all hell broke loose (whole thread about about how terrible a longer school day/year would be).  You can't have it both ways people.  You can't replicate the outcomes of charter schools AND at the same time ignore their strategies for obtaining those outcomes.[/quote]

Uh, sure. But your ignoring inconvenient realities including the fact that each charter is essentially an island, making its own rules (working within the confines of certain requirements obviously, but for the most part, lots of freedom); DCPS operates as one enormous entity that has to concern itself with equity and consistency across the District while also contending with the WTU. DCPS needs a leader who is able to acknowledge the fact that different schools and different student populations need different things and then put those different things (i.e. extended school day, Saturday classes, etc.) in place...not as pilot programs to test it out to see how it can be applied to all DCPS schools, but as stand-alone programs that meet the needs of a particular school. Stop with the one-size fits all prescriptions. [/quote]

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