Advocacy is at the center of our work. We’re parents, teachers, principals and students and we collaborate with each other and with families across the city to support our schools. Often times, this means we find ourselves before DC Council, the State Board of Education, and DC Public Schools expressing our views from the ‘on the ground reality’ which quite often does not align with top-down policy.
Sometimes it means we protest…
Decoding the FY24 DCPS Budget
The DCPS Budget for SY24 presents some schools with cuts (in spite of stable enrollment and in spite of DC Council Legislation designed to prevent cuts). It also provides increase in funds to some schools with large populations of students with the greatest need. To help DC families understand the budget, three DC parents (and…
Elizabeth Corinth Testimony – DCPS Budget Hearing – Nov 16 2022
Hello, my name is Elizabeth Corinth. I am a ward 6 resident and the parent of three DCPS students at School-Within-School @ Goding, where I currently serve as the LSAT chair. As we prepare the DCPS budget allocations for FY24, we urgently need to address the insufficiency of the baseline budgets that schools receive. I challenge…
Stephen Kletter Testimony – DCPS Budget Hearing – Nov 16 2022
Good evening. My name is Stephen Kletter and I am a practicing economist who has lived and worked in the District for over 25 years. I have two children that attend Jackson-Reed High School. Over the past few years I have spent an enormous amount of my own time deciphering the old and new DCPS…
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Ward 6 Public School Parents Organization 