Deputy Mayor for Education/ Attorney General
This is the response of the DME to the Council on the "learning loss" or interrupted learning of the last year. It was submitted to inform the Council prior to their hearing today.
Student Assignment
The DC Deputy Mayor for Education convened an Advisory Committee on this important subject - Please go to this web address to obtain all the meeting materials http://dme.dc.gov/book/student-assignment-and-school-boundaries-review-process/advisory-committee-meeting-materials. The Implementation Plan can be viewed at the DCPS website at http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Parents+and+Community/Community+Initiatives/Boundaries+and+Feeders/Final+Implementation+Plan
Adequacy Study
They are also available on the DME website http://dc.gov/DC/DME/About+DME/News+Room/Deputy+Mayor+for+Education+Releases+Preliminary+Findings+and+Recommendations+of+the+DC+Education+Adequacy+Study
Attached below is an important letter signed by 60 community groups and individual citizens expressing concern about some of the recommendations in the study. It was mailed on February 21, 2014 to the Mayor and copied to the council.
Attorney General
Charter School Law Suit Amicus Brief -
All the materials pertaining to this law suit are available on the 21CSF website - http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/datashop.asp