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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What schools will be impacted?[/quote]

Eaton, for one.[/quote]

I think the Ward 4 shelter is inbound for Truesdell.[/quote]

Outside of Eaton, they are all high poverty schools, hopefully the city will provide them with the extra resources they may need.  [/quote]

The high poverty schools are the ones with the appropriate resources. That may be how they chose the locations. [/quote]

please elaborate[/quote]

One point is that the schools with Title I funding have appropriate programming paid for by those funds to support at risk students, like extended day/year, free before and after care, etc. Schools like Janney, Key, Mann, Murch, and Lafayette, etc. do not have this, and all before and after care is paid for by the parents using it -- some is quite expensive.

But a bigger point is the unclear way in which social support resources are allocated. Some schools have 1/2 a social worker for 600 students/4% at risk (DCPS funded, 1:1200 ratio) while others have 2 social workers and 2 psychologists on staff for 400 students/75% at risk (half funded by DCPS, half by Title I, 1:100 ratio), based on the anticipated needs of the student body. Obviously the first school is staffed in anticipation of low need, and there are times when there is no one in the building who is designated support which doesn't really meet the needs of students who are not at risk but still need support, let alone those who are at risk. These budgets are set almost a year in advance, when it is unknown whether or not transient students will be in the school, so to have high need students show up mid year at a school funded under the first model would be a problem. DCPS will have to beef up the budget for school support staff in advance of the shelter relocations to properly serve these children, even if none of the students end up attending the school.

I have no knowledge of how this was done or how these resources are allocated, but I would expect that someone put some thought into the need to consolidate resources. I believe Eaton is presently funded for 1 social worker and 1/2 psychologist (currently 6% at risk), none with Title I funds. Maybe that's enough to absorb the potentially added students, maybe it isn't. Oddly, some schools with much higher at risk % (but lower enrollment) have the same staff at Eaton, while others with much lower at risk (but much higher enrollment) have more staff (Janney and Lafayette). Seems pretty random.

Source: http://www.dcpsdatacenter.com/fy17_initial.html[/quote]

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