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Budget Engagement Meetings FY16 - Meeting Notes


Friday, March 13, 2015

Chancellor-LSAT Budget Engagement Meetings

All principals, LSAT Chairs, and parent organization leaders from each school in DCPS received invitations to attend one meeting based on the geographic region and feeder high school (for instance, all schools including ES, EC, MS that feed into Coolidge High School attended the meeting on 1/22/15). Schools were seated with each other at round tables to facilitate feeder discussions as well as cross-school conversations. Table facilitators were located at each table to ensure notes of the discussion were captured. Specialty, selective, citywide schools attended meetings that were the closest to their respective school locations (i.e. McKinley Tech HS attended the meeting held at Cardozo EC).

Discussions centered on the Chancellor’s 3 budget priorities for SY15-16; Improving High Schools, Equity in Academic Rigor, and Empowering Males of Color. There was a 4th discussion area added that allowed participants to share feedback that could not be captured within the 3 budget priority areas – the questions included: 1) What else would you prioritize at your school to improve student achievement?  and 2) What should we stop doing?

While each table facilitator paid careful attention to record the conversation at each table, every note taker’s style is different, which is reflected in the varying formats of the notes. In addition, participants at each table were able to select which questions they prioritized for discussion, so each table’s notes will reflect this variance.  Lastly, for privacy purposes, names of individuals have been redacted.