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DCPS: Initial General Documents on the Proposed FY09 Budget
(Note: These two documents were obtained from Acting DC Attorney General Peter Nickles, after eight parents and teacher and neighbors sued Chancellor Rhee and Mayor Fenty, asking for budget information.) Pages 1-36 (2MB pdf) of the Chancellor's proposed budget (no details) to the mayor. Pages 37-46 (553 kb pdf). A list of proposed initiatives for FY09 (52kb pdf). We are still expecting Chancellor Rhee to provide much more detail, as required by law.
Most of the following documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request (80 kb Word file) submitted on December 6, 2007. (NOTE: The government is refusing to release any e-mails or notes that would show how the school closing decisions were really made.)
Office of Property Management
January 2008 rent rolls: a list of property rented by D.C. government agenices (45 kB Excel).
The 9/12/07 Alvarez and Marsal analysis conducted for Mayor Fenty (164 kB Excel spreadsheet), and an e-mail from Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education indicating that the earlier $23.7 million estimate was based on closing 30 schools (7 more than the Mayor is actually proposing to close). The Alvarez & Marsal analysis calculated the fixed cost savings associated with closing Bowen, Bunker Hill, Draper, Eckington, Hine, Mamie D Lee, Moten, Park View, Patterson, Powell, Ron Brown, Sharpe Health, Shaw, Slowe, Stevens, West, and Young. The analysis did not look at loss of students to charter schools. Here's an executive summary (1MB pdf) of the full study.
The overall ‘master’ data spreadsheet showing DCPS facility information, used as the primary data compilation and data source by 21st Century School Fund in its analysis” (MASTER School File SY2006-07.xls) (836 kB Excel spreadsheet)
Nov 13 memo by government contractors, summarizing part of the process used to develop the school closing list (36 kb pdf)
Oct 3 Presentation by 21st Century, Brookings, and Urban Institute, to the D.C. Government, on School Closings (5 Mb pdf) and another version (1.1 Mb pdf), predicting the loss of about 1,000 students from DCPS
Emails between Abigail Smith, Special Assistant to Victor Reinoso, and other members of the DC government: Aug 1 through Nov 26 (6 Mb pdf), and Nov 27 through Dec 7 (4 Mb pdf)
Testimony for the January 14, 2008, City Council hearing on school closings by Kathryn Pearson-West (42 kB Word file), Iris Toyer (308 kB pdf file), and Marc Borbely (30 kB pdf file). (Please send other testimonies that can be posted, to borbely@fixourschools.net.)
Also see the 21st Century School Fund's Data Shop for more data. Note: the 21st Century School Fund was hired to produce the 2008 school closings plan for the District.
DCPS: Initial General Documents on the Proposed FY09 Budget
(Note: These two documents were obtained from Acting DC Attorney General Peter Nickles, after eight parents and teacher and neighbors sued Chancellor Rhee and Mayor Fenty, asking for budget information.) Pages 1-36 (2MB pdf) of the Chancellor's proposed budget (no details) to the mayor. Pages 37-46 (553 kb pdf). A list of proposed initiatives for FY09 (52kb pdf). We are still expecting Chancellor Rhee to provide much more detail, as required by law.
Most of the following documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request (80 kb Word file) submitted on December 6, 2007. (NOTE: The government is refusing to release any e-mails or notes that would show how the school closing decisions were really made.)
Office of Property Management
January 2008 rent rolls: a list of property rented by D.C. government agenices (45 kB Excel).
The 9/12/07 Alvarez and Marsal analysis conducted for Mayor Fenty (164 kB Excel spreadsheet), and an e-mail from Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education indicating that the earlier $23.7 million estimate was based on closing 30 schools (7 more than the Mayor is actually proposing to close). The Alvarez & Marsal analysis calculated the fixed cost savings associated with closing Bowen, Bunker Hill, Draper, Eckington, Hine, Mamie D Lee, Moten, Park View, Patterson, Powell, Ron Brown, Sharpe Health, Shaw, Slowe, Stevens, West, and Young. The analysis did not look at loss of students to charter schools. Here's an executive summary (1MB pdf) of the full study.
The overall ‘master’ data spreadsheet showing DCPS facility information, used as the primary data compilation and data source by 21st Century School Fund in its analysis” (MASTER School File SY2006-07.xls) (836 kB Excel spreadsheet)
Nov 13 memo by government contractors, summarizing part of the process used to develop the school closing list (36 kb pdf)
Oct 3 Presentation by 21st Century, Brookings, and Urban Institute, to the D.C. Government, on School Closings (5 Mb pdf) and another version (1.1 Mb pdf), predicting the loss of about 1,000 students from DCPS
Emails between Abigail Smith, Special Assistant to Victor Reinoso, and other members of the DC government: Aug 1 through Nov 26 (6 Mb pdf), and Nov 27 through Dec 7 (4 Mb pdf)
Testimony for the January 14, 2008, City Council hearing on school closings by Kathryn Pearson-West (42 kB Word file), Iris Toyer (308 kB pdf file), and Marc Borbely (30 kB pdf file). (Please send other testimonies that can be posted, to borbely@fixourschools.net.)
Also see the 21st Century School Fund's Data Shop for more data. Note: the 21st Century School Fund was hired to produce the 2008 school closings plan for the District.
