Thread from May 3 on Wilson budget cuts. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/639824.page

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Anonymous wrote:Heard on grapevine that teachers were excessed at Wilson today and it is turning into neighborhood school? Yes or no, for any in the know with actual knowledge?

I don't know. Read on the Senior High Alliance of Parents, Principals and Educators (S.H.A.P.P.E.) minutes that this was a potential possibility as budget cuts combined with LEAP costs put budget in range of 1 million in actuality. Can google and read the minutes but it doesn't mention being a neighborhood school, whatever that means! Hopefully someone who has more information can enlighten us

Wilson enrollment is down (slightly). And fewer at risk students (both economically disadvantaged and students with IEPs). That would reduce the school's funding even without the LEAP costs.

From the OSSE enrollment audit data https://osse.dc.gov/enrollment

Wilson
2015-16
1791 students
563 economically disadvantaged students (29.8%)
234 students with disabilities (13.1%)

2016-17
1749 students
423 economically disadvantaged students (24%)
204 students with disabilities (11.6%)

Anonymous wrote:Heard on grapevine that teachers were excessed at Wilson today and it is turning into neighborhood school? Yes or no, for any in the know with actual knowledge?

I don't know. Read on the Senior High Alliance of Parents, Principals and Educators (S.H.A.P.P.E.) minutes that this was a potential possibility as budget cuts combined with LEAP costs put budget in range of 1 million in actuality. Can google and read the minutes but it doesn't mention being a neighborhood school, whatever that means! Hopefully someone who has more information can enlighten us

Are you saying they are telling OOB kids with too many tardies they can not return?

What do you mean by a neighborhood school?

Heard on grapevine that teachers were excessed at Wilson today and it is turning into neighborhood school? Yes or no, for any in the know with actual knowledge?