How can we make the District of Columbia truly “One City?”
Making genuine progress toward creating “One City” is the Mayor’s highest priority. Mayor Gray has said that One City “is the recognition that all District residents, no matter their differences, are bound together by a common destiny and a shared desire to make the city even better for the people who live here. Regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ward or neighborhood, we all want a vibrant, sustainable city, where all residents have an opportunity to provide for themselves and their families, where every neighborhood is safe, where every student goes to a good school, where every tax dollar is spent wisely on a government that works, and where citizens’ voices really count.” Yet the District government cannot achieve this goal alone.
We’d like your thinking on some of the specific questions that we’ll be wresting with at the summit:
- How do we grow and diversify the economy?
- What do DC government, businesses, and non-profits need to do to help people who aren’t currently job-ready get the skills they need to find work, especially in growing sectors of the economy?
- In order to have healthy, thriving infants and toddlers, what District government services and resources will be most important for our families and communities?
5 results found
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Save the primary Montessori program at Langdon Education campus
The toddlers (3,4 and 5 year olds) in Langdon Education campus' primary Montessori classes have been thriving since 1997. Our three year olds are learning to count, sound letters and work on their motor skills such as writing their names. By four, these kids are doing simple addition and subtraction, reading easy readers and writing simple sentences. It's particularly amazing when you find out this is happening at a school where the student body is 95% black and 71% receive free or reduced price lunch. Instead of strengthening this program, parents received letters indicating the primary program will be…
61 votes -
Equitable funding for high quality Infant/Toddler Programs
Honor and respect the commitment of those community based Early Care and Education programs operating nationally accredited Infant/Toddler programs by provididng funding, public/private, to ensure infants and toddlers in the city have access to high quality programs and related services.
9 votes -
25% of Washington, DC adults cannot read. We need a citywide literacy effort and it has been done in another city, we can do it here.
Create an parent's institute in an effort to improve public education right inside of the school's building.
5 votes -
DC provide the same opportunities for Qualified Community Based childcare programs to benefit from money from the City Build program.
DCPS and Charter Schools receive monies to improve the infrastuture of their programs we care the cities most vulnerable children as well and should be able to apply for like monies to improve these services in community based childcare programs so that pqrents have true choice
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Stop letting Maryland parents use DCPS preschools as free childcare
Last year DCPS sent hundreds of tuition bills to Maryland commuters with kids enrolled in DC's public preschools, but not one parent paid. DCPS said that without a collection agency there's nothing they can do, but can't they turn the Maryland kids away? DC kids need those spots. If I left my daughter on the doorstep of Sidwell Friends School without paying, would they educate her for free? No! There's a long string of Maryland plates at my daughter's preschool every afternoon and none of those parents are active in the PTA. We need neighborhood schools to be neighborhood schools…
2 votes