As promised, I have added additional tactics that I think will enhance the efficiency of our schools and provide teachers and administrators with increased resources to put toward educating students. Let's try these on for size:
DCPS should work closely with the rest of the DC government to move from a human resource system relying on paper to the electronic system that is used by other city agencies. Under the current structure, records are lost and sometimes destroyed, leading to inaccurate budgeting and disgruntled employees. People may become lost in the system and sometimes never even accounted for. It was also recently discovered in a limited survey that the average teacher looses at least one day of classroom time due to personnel matters. With electronic records, this could easily be solved.
DC Government should help DCPS streamline the partnership process for both government and private grants. While the District has a long-established system to solicit, accept and process grants, DCPS currently stands without a policy. This is a cause for concern because it provides no road map for spending grant money and likely causes DCPS to lose out on millions of dollars that are donated elsewhere.
Channel 99, also known as DC Schools Television, is ineffective and lacks the funds to provide real value to students. The Office of Cable Television should serve as a program partner with Channel 99 to bring real Career Technology Education into the schools. By allowing Channel 99 to share resources with other government channels, it will give producers the ability to enhance programming across the board.
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You neglect to mention the need for coordinated and integrated services in our schools. The solution is not how DCPS and MPD share security resources at a school. I'm going to assume that the worst cases of misbehavior derive from poverty and socioeconomic factors. We don't want or need police being our disciplinarians; it will diminish their role as police officers. In some neighborhoods of Ward 5, where I used to teach, I wanted my students to trust the police, not resent them for being their discplinarian. We need to unite as a city and finally declare that we're going to help those in need. We can start that by getting into our schools with essential services, counselors, social workers, health care workers...have them work alongside our teachers in developing their character, and we'll see the security needs of MPD diminish. Let MPD focus on the perps outside the school, empower our social services to help kids on the inside with whatever they need.
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