Erika Roberson
@educationerikaEducation Advocate | she/her | @UNC Alum | @edtransformGU Alum | Tweets are my own
Last week I testified on the DCPS FY 2025 initial budgets at the Committe of the Whole's Performance Oversight Hearing. Here are a few key takeaways from my testimony 🧵
Black girls experience school 🏫🎒discipline for a host of reasons—many of them associated with the increasingly punitive responses to student behavior and the absence of alternatives to exclusionary discipline in schools. Watch this webinar on-demand and create a positive…
Our 2024 Speaker Series starts off with a 🔥 panel on teacher organizing and advocacy on Fri 9/27. See below for more information- our events are free and open to the public!
Join us Fri, 9/27, 5PM for a #EDTRSpeakerSeries panel "Teachers as Policy Actors: Organizing & Advocacy for Ed Justice in Wash, DC," feat @WTUTeacher VP Regina Bell, EDTR Alum @nenacheche, @dcacts Kelley Ukhun & DCPS teacher @AliceMcNeill7 Info ⬇️ RSVP: bit.ly/3MSkRmU
Don't miss this virtual @UrbanInstitute panel, where DCFPI Senior Policy Analyst @MikeJohnsonJr_ will be talking about how criminal legal fines and fees impact DC residents and their families ⤵️
Join the Urban Institute on 9/23 @ 1:00 p.m. ET for a Catalyst Grant Program virtual #event where two past grantees will share their findings from collecting and analyzing criminal legal system fines and fees #data. urbn.is/4gweUd1 #LiveatUrban
Good news! For TY2024, DC taxpayers receiving the DC EITC will receive their payments as a lump sum payment unless they opt-IN to receive monthly payments. Tax instructions will have a warning that their SNAP/other federal benefits may be reduced if choose monthly payments.
Hot off the press: New paper shows enormous churn of schools in DC over a 20 year period and finds that the churn tracks with neighborhood gentrification. I don't know how you look at the # of schools that closed and think it's good. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
ICYMI: DCPS is offering FREE eye exams and immunizations at various school sites in August. Register to join at forms.office.com/pages/response… Upcoming dates on Friday, August 16th (Brookland Middle) and Saturday, August 17th (Deal Middle). Don't miss it!
I can't believe she's gone. She was kind, patient, smart, and had immaculate attention to detail. DC lost a giant, and the fight for fair DCPS school budgets won't be the same without her.
I am very saddened to learn that longtime education advocate Mary Levy has passed away. Mary arguably understood DCPS better than anyone else in this city. A respected leader in the fight for better schools, for decades she held the trust of Councilmembers. She will be missed.
We're hiring! Check out our open positions: 📈Data Analyst dcfpi.org/wp-content/upl… 💻Digital Communications Associate dcfpi.org/wp-content/upl… 👶Early Childhood Ed Policy Intern dcfpi.org/wp-content/upl…
How can DC grow its economy? By expanding affordable child care. In the first year alone DC’s economy would grow by $1.7 billion, if all families had access. Want to know more? Check out my new report: dcfpi.org/all/expanding-… 🧵
Interesting new @DMEforDC data on public school enrollment by school, SY19-20 to SY23-24. Includes filters by individual school, grade band w/i school and student groups like race/ethnicity and in-boundary status. edscape.dc.gov/node/1730326
Someone had to say it!!!
One of these things is not like the others: DeKalb Co. GA --- 98,800 students in 131 schools San Diego CA --- 102,270 students in 176 schools Jefferson Co. KY --100,348 students in 170 schools Washington, DC -- 98,663 students in 252 schools
The most notable thing out of this to me was the parent-supported effort from the advisory committee to align entry dates for schools for equity purposes and level the playing field. The administration killed it, presumably at the behest of the charter lobby.
Mayor Bowser accepted the recommendations from the @DMEforDC 2023 Boundary and Student Assignment Study earlier this month. Here are a few key takeaways from the study:🧵
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The study also requires DCPS to develop a public plan for ensuring dual language programs are offered across the city starting no later than 2026. Why so late? Other recommendations start this year – District leaders must stop putting 🏫in Wards 7 & 8 on the backburner.
Only 28% of @dcpublicschools students attend in-boundary schools. Ward 3 expectedly much higher in boundary utilization than Wards 7&8. dme.dc.gov/boundaries2023
Mayor Bowser accepted the recommendations from the @DMEforDC 2023 Boundary and Student Assignment Study earlier this month. Here are a few key takeaways from the study:🧵
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