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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This troll has just been posting in every thread mentioning HS and starting tons of her own. S/he may have inside info. S/he may not. But s/he has yet to back up a single one of her assertions and has repeatedly posted percentage data for schools that is incorrect. [/quote]

Not defending the troll, but I don't think this year's schoolwide percentages are available yet.[/quote]

I assumed they were providing last year's data as they started providing it pre-count day.[/quote]

Head Start eligibility is not based on the overall school poverty percentage, but the percentage of economically disadvantaged students in preK. Yes, all of the schools that will not have Head Start are heavily disadvantaged in grades K/1 through 5, but this is not the case in preK/ECE. If you look at the categorical poverty data for things like SNAP, TANF, homeless children, and foster children the rates for many of the schools that are being cut is extremely low. If DCPS was basing the decision on overall school poverty all of the schools except Ludlow Taylor and Van Ness would still receive the services. Now, Head Start and Title I are two separate things. All of these schools except maybe Ludlow and Van Ness will remain Title I for next year.[/quote]

I agree, it is odd how the troll pops up to make these random assertions but provides no background on how the decision is being made, what percentage a school needs to qualify, what exactly os being withheld, when the announcement will be made, etc.  The list of schools keeps changing too.  A person truly in the know would not leak, or would leak more persuasively.  This just reads like stirring the pot.[/quote]

All of this has already been explained multiple times in the thread. Did anyone honestly think that Head Start was going to continue to allow DCPS to continue providing services with schools with less than a third of Head Start eligible kids.[/quote]

You just keep posting the same assertions over and over. You keep saying this will be announced “soon,” but you’ve been saying that for ages and there’s been no announcement. You also have a very the sky is falling approach to what losing HS will mean for most schools. I actually wonder if you’re an instructional coach because you seem particularly obsessed by the role that they play where no ECE teacher in my T1 school seems to think they’re anything more than a slightly helpful resource.[/quote]

This.  Provide some real data and a cite, or stop it.  And what's the big deal if high-income schools lose Head Start?  If they're going to take away a whole classroom, that's newsworthy.  But if the teachers are losing a little PD coaching time or the schools have to replace some classroom materials, that's just not a big deal for a high-income school.[/quote]

The instructional coaches provide more than just “PD time”. They provide comprehensive support in various areas such as ensuring that the curriculum is being taught properly, behavior management strategies, support with meeting CLASS objectives, classroom climate guidance, and lesson plan development. I could list a million things that schools receive with Head Start. Schools will also have to pay for subscriptions to GOLD for assessments. [/quote]

Good teachers already know that stuff, and a high-SES PTA can easily comp it.  Most of the teachers have been through all of your sucky PD guidance already.  If it's like most services from downtown, it pretty much sucks.  [/quote]

Oh really, are you a DCPS ECE teacher? The majority of the ECE teachers receiving coaching benefit from having comprehensive coaching.[/quote]

How would you know they benefit?  They might say it to your face to be polite, but like most services from downtown, it isn't very good.

Most of them have had it already and don't need to have it again.[/quote]

Well considering the fact that the CLASS scores for ECE teachers receiving coaching are higher than those that don’t speaks volumes.[/quote]

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