Talk:District of Columbia Public Schools

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Initial version of this article is primarily made of public domain data, as a work of the US government, downloaded from here. The data only covers public schools, so people should feel free to add private schools, following the example given in the table. Niteowlneils 04:23, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Looks like similar private school data is available from another page of the same site, just not in near as convenient form to create a table from[1]. Niteowlneils 05:07, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Public v. private schools in DC

I deleted "Most wealthy or middle-class families in Washington, D.C. place their children in private schools instead of DCPS schools largely due to low performance and facility problems."

The footnote does not support this statement.

RESPONSE

I have not yet edited this article, but it's in grave need of it. DCPS is a system well known for it's abysmal bureaucracy, exceptionally poor performance, white flight, and all-around failure (though some recent trends indicate improvement). This article was clearly not written by anyone with experience dealing with the system. Furthermore, in the above post, the footnote referred to is the DCPS website, not precisely a great source of balanced information, or any information at all given the websites quality (a picture of a former science teacher of mine is on it's front page, 5 years after he quit and moved to Albany, an easy indicator of upkeep in the system.) Point being, this article is in grave need of editing to include a balanced discussion of it's history, failures, successes, and future.

DCPS vs. DCPCSB

Both DCPS and DCPCSB have chartering authority. The DCPS Charter Schools are the ones currently undergoing investigation for corruptiom, NOT the ones overseen by the DCPCSB.

Hey anons! Read this http://www.exploredc.org/index.php?id=332 - By the way, just because DCPCSB is having problems doesn't mean that the middle and upper class like DCPS. i'm just stating an NPOV fact here supported by this statement. WhisperToMe 22:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Woodson Senior High

This high school is described here as "comprehensive high school", and that is the impression I got from reading a this lengthy article in last week's Washington City Paper. But that's not what the Wikipedia article says. Why? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:25, 6 March 2008 (UTC)