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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school. [/quote]

Wait, did she really say that??? :shock: [/quote]

No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be: 
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time

The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays. [/quote]

This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing. [/quote]

The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time. [/quote]

I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, [b]who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.[/b]

If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.[/quote]

Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues. [/quote]

They skipped the education debate. Regardless of where you stand on JLG I can't fathom voting for a guy who has put in basically zero effort and refuses to do any actual constituent work.[/quote]

Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools, reduce classtime so teachers can get more time off and opposes raising education standards, including created gifted and talented programs. No thanks. I want someone who won't just do the bidding of the teachers union. [/quote]

You must be the same person. Stop lying. I am a teacher, the union does not want this. You also must not be engaged in education, teachers have testified FOR higher standards not against.

There will be no slashing of charter funds. Tell me where JLG says this.

It’s fine to want someone else to win, albeit a poor choice if you have children in public schools -what’s not fine is lying out of your ass to slander a candidate but also the very people who teach children.
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The budget that's currently before the city council would slash charter funding. The charter community has gone completely ape shit over it. Has JLG said she opposes it? She filled out a questionnaire saying teachers need more PD days. Where has she said she wants to raise educational standards? She's never said any such thing. She's been in the government for almost a decade. [/quote]

Where’s the link to the questionnaire? I have it (as a teacher) and I do not see anything about more PD. Also you do realize more PD wouldn’t mean LESS school, it’d mean more days for teachers. 🙄

The charter community? No, a few of them. Because that 10k is a lie. It’s about $900.
Have those few also gone crazy gotten upset for the millions DCPS loses for kids charters send to them after count day?

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Bowser and Janeese think the DC government should spend $9,675 more per child in DCPS than kids in charters.

https://dccharters.org/blog/the-numbers-dont-lie[/quote]

I think if the charters want the money DCPS gets for IMPACT bonuses, then they should have to use the same evaluation system.[/quote]

Why?  The law says equal funding not that they have to spend it the same way.  The point of charter schools is to provide alternatives.  Charters shouldn’t don’t need to follow DCPS’s bad ideas to get equal funding.[/quote]

The law does not account for what DCPS has to pay teachers in a union. So yes, it is close to equal. That $450 is real and should be addressed.[/quote]

You think compensation of DCPS teachers isn’t covered in the law that provides equal funding?  Your comment would suggest DCI can give their teachers a 50% raise and it doesn’t have to come out of their per student allocation because the teachers are in a union.  Taxpayers would just need to provide the funds because they are in a union.  It doesn’t make sense.[/quote]

Yes, that is the reason. They are under an actual contract, charter teachers do not have to have a license. They don’t get a pension. Just like the police and firefighters get one, come on. [/quote]

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