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Good Morning,

 

During the Council's Budget meeting, Catania identified that almost all of the high schools were really really really under-enrolled -- some as low as 40+%.  I believe that Cardoza was that one and the reason that it was listed higher was that a Middle School's (I believe Garnett Patterson) numbers were being utilized to skew the numbers.

 

Taking into consideration that we have such a high rate of kids not graduating which would include dropping out, I am wondering how Kaya would explain the continuation of this inverse approach to closing of schools.  It would seem that the money being spent on renovation (like Catania said) would have been more appropriately directed at developing from primary and middle schools vs. all the attention and money spent on high schools -- especially when the population dictated that the approach was upgrading from bottom up --- (Catania addressed this as well).

 

Understanding that Charter Schools have not proven to be any better at educating our kids and if they were not allowed to "transfer"/expel the kids to our DCPS, their numbers would probably be worse ---

 

1.  How do we use Catania's information to prevent the closings of some schools while taking a very different approach to renovating and keeping others open with worse enrollment numbers?

 

2.  How do we get a full de-briefing of all the variables of why Rhee/Kaya can't seem to have made any difference since 2006 in the actual proficiency rates -- even though the numbers seems to be moved around to skew the result?

 

Like I said, Personally -- I don't care how our kids get educated -- so long as they get educated -- but in order to be this "walkable" neighborhoods that the Mayor and so many others want to see, we need to adjust the rules of the Charters to allow for this "Green" approach to education.

 

Mendelson made a comment (not sure if it was a joke or not) in that Budget meeting that years ago, they use to put prisoners in a bus in an attempt to skew the numbers prison numbers.  I am sure that it was a Joke but there seems to be too much issues that conflict with DCPS's approach that would lend credence to us having a similar though process regarding our kids and their education.

 

 
Rob Ramson
3744 12th Street, N.E.,
Washington D.C., 20017
202-438-5988

"We must become the change we want to see" - Mohandas Gandhi-
(Together, for a Brighter Tomorrow)




 

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