... capitol city we have to go overseas to hire teachers.   How much of this are the District of Columbia residence going to take.   Clearly we are being mislead about these issues and everyone except Barbara is a sleep at the switch.   Where is the DC Council, Does our so called Congressional Representative care or is she just a one trick pony? DCPS, Teachers, Budget, Import Teachers, Rhee.

... say, Massachusetts. The results are promising. As the Post writes, the NAEP data show that DCPS "was the only one of 11 studied in 2007 and 2009 to make significant strides in grade 4 ... , which educate about a third of D.C. public school students, and whose scores also increased. The DCPS 8th grade gains would also be larger this year if charter school scores had been excluded previously. An ...

... ," Bartnoff wrote. "Such an action would not benefit DCPS, its teachers, students or staff, or the wider District of Columbia ... said the union failed to provide any substantive evidence that DCPS packed the system with teachers it could not pay for until the D.C. Council cut its ... as "a very credible witness" in her testimony on DCPS' budget problems after the council cut. -Bill ...

... ," Bartnoff wrote. "Such an action would not benefit DCPS, its teachers, students or staff, or the wider District of Columbia ... said the union failed to provide any substantive evidence that DCPS packed the system with teachers it could not pay for until the D.C. Council cut its ... as "a very credible witness" in her testimony on DCPS' budget problems after the council cut. Bill ...

... a reversal of the layoffs would force Rhee and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty to make other cuts in the DCPS, harming the public interest. "The District asserts, and the plaintiff has not disputed, ... deemed essential would have to be cut," Bartnoff wrote. "Such an action would not benefit DCPS, its teachers, students or staff, or the wider District of Columbia community." No word yet on ...

... 's considered one of the "crown jewels" of DCPS. Even the mayor opted to endure public indignation when he enrolled ... - to help make up for what they aren't getting at school? I know that budgets are tight everywhere, and that DCPS is no exception. And ultimately, I am comfortable enough with what they are getting from their school that I am not thinking about pulling them ...

... things to do in order to be a decent teacher in my department. All of my lessons are now supposed to be aligned with: -AP standards (which I haven't been trained in and therefore don't even know what they are) -DCPS Content Standards -DCPS Skill Standards -The School's mission -The Department's mission -The textbook -And a website my department head likes to use Is it just me, or ...

A few thoughts and observations on the Internets and other forms of communication. 1. I came pretty late to the Twitter party, and I use it somewhat infrequently because (fortunately for my productivity) DCPS blocks pretty much every web site available. So I’m not exactly qualified to opine on its usefulness and popularity, but I’m going to do it anyway. I saw a friend’s tweet ...

... Lee said he uses "approximately 90 percent of his resources during after-school hours ... to address juvenile misbehavior." The problem is significant enough that he has daily conference calls with DCPS and the D.C. Department of Social Services "to anticipate and address issues." He went on to say "that Metro deals with an influx of approximately 10,000 juveniles every ...

... Representative November 10 meeting that I attend at McKinley last week , WTU Field Representative Anita Corley stated publicly that the WTU's legal arguments appeared weak because they did not want to alert DCPS lawyers to the strategy that the WTU would ultimately use in arbitration. When I heard this as a rationale, I actually couldn't believe what I was hearing. I couldn't help but ...

... under-housed, and under-fed. I don’t want a better police chief nearly as bad as I want to break up public housing, introduce mandatory pre-K, end the effort for a gimmicky solution to DCPS’ problems, and improve the climate for small businesses. Among other things. I hate that Oscar Fuentes is dead, but I didn’t need his death to galvanize me. Perhaps if we begin focusing more ...

‘cheat’ courtesy of ‘cdrummbks’ The DC Wire blog reports that 12 DCPS schools have been ordered to open investigations into their 2009 test scores. This is some weak sauce, given that this concern is nothing new. Initially Superintendent of Education Kerri Briggs declined to pursue that issue further because the review came back “inconclusive,” but when you ...

... chiefs and school chancellors is cheap; by and large, I judge the effectiveness of city agencies by how the lowest level deals with the issue. And, at least in this incident, most of the police officers, DCPS employees, and charter school administrators I have dealt with have addressed this as seriously and as effectively as possible. But the sense of frustration of many of the police officers ...

... /A/2009/00462 & 00476 dated 31-3-2009 & 8-4-2009 Right to Information Act 2005 – Section 19 Appellant: Ms. Inder Kaur Respondent: Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Vigilance Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Economic Offences Wing FACTS By two applications of 19-12-2008 Smt. Inder Kaur of New Friends Colony, New Delhi applied to the DCPs Vigilance and South Distt seeking the following information: “1.

... . Technically, Charter schools fall under a separate Board and have independent rules at each school. However there are general rules and guidelines in effect from the Board as well for all the Charter schools. . . While not under the DCPS authority or the Chancellor's office, Charter schools are subject to the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, as are all DC schools who take any ...