On December 20, the DC council passed a bill (see here and here) authored, edited, promoted, re-presented, and (eventually, thankfully) amended by chairman of the council Phil Mendelson that will re-do how DCPS school budgets are calculated. The bill now includes amendments that advocates fought hard for, as DCPS parent and budget guru Betsy Wolf … Continue reading Slouching Into 2023 With DC’s Zero Sum Education Politics

[Ed. Note: The following is a public comment submitted December 18 via email to the DC public charter school board concerning its new public comment process, which (per the charter board’s memo on it) was created to “improve the integrity of the public comment process.”] Dear charter board members, My name is Valerie Jablow, and … Continue reading Integrity–Or, When DC Charters Lie About Real Estate (And Other Tales Of Public Dissing)