Cross-Sector Collaboration Task Force: Community Meeting at Bellevue Library
Who: The Cross-Sector Collaboration Task Force,* formed in February 2016 by the Deputy Mayor for Education Jennie Niles, is tasked with developing clear and fair recommendations for the Mayor on how to improve collaboration across public schools in DC. For the last several months, the Task Force has concentrated on its goal of promoting enrollment stability and drafted a policy proposal around addressing student mobility.
What: The proposal focuses on centralizing the process for students entering DCPS and charter schools after the October 5 audited enrollment date with the main goals of 1) better understanding why students enter, exit and transfer mid-year, 2) more equitably distributing mid-year students to schools across both sectors so as to reduce the concentration of mid-year transfer students in high-churn schools, and 3) supporting schools to get the information and potentially resources to better serve these new mid-year students.
Deputy Mayor Niles and the Cross-Sector Collaboration Task Force will host three community meetings to collect feedback from members of the public on this policy proposal. During the community meetings, staff members from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education will go over the purpose and parameters of the policy before facilitating table discussions on several aspects of the policy proposal.
An overview of the proposal can be found here.
Where & When:The community meetings will take place on the following days from 6:00-7:30pm:
- Tuesday, January 10, 2017 6:00-7:30pm at Bellevue (William O. Lockridge) Neighborhood Library (115 Atlantic St. SW, Washington, DC 20032)
- Tuesday, January 17, 2017 6:00-7:30pm at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library (3160 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20010)
- Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:00-7:30pm at Northeast Neighborhood Library (330 7th St. NE, Washington, DC 20002)
If you have any questions, please reach out to Jenn Comey and Hannah Holliday at collaboration@dc.gov.
*Interested in learning more about the Cross-Sector Collaboration Task Force? See the links below: