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DC Public Schools is forcing schools to cut staff for the 2021-22 school year, the first year of recovery after more than one year of disrupted learning due to Covid-19. We, as parents, teachers, and community members across DC demand that the city<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px;font-weight:700;overflow-wrap:break-word">maintain
current staffing levels for the upcoming school year to support recovery. DC must also invest more in schools in under-resourced areas<span> </span></strong>to address the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19.</p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Meanwhile, DCPS is expecting to receive from the American Rescue Plan around<span> </span></span><a href="https://osse.dc.gov/cares" style="margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);outline:0px;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(205, 58, 24);transition:all 0.2s linear 0s">$275
million</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span> </span>in stimulus funding to support schools in recovering from the multilayered impacts of the pandemic. These federal funds can be used for<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text" style="margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);outline:0px;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(205, 58, 24);transition:all 0.2s linear 0s">“activities
that are necessary to maintain the operation of and continuity of services … and to employ existing staff.”</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span> </span></span><br>
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Grateful if you would consider signing the petition to demand that DCPS not cut staff or resources in SY21-22. </div>
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Ward 6 schools reporting cuts to staffing are:</div>
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<li>Amidon-Bowen ES</li><li>Eastern High School</li><li>Ludlow-Taylor ES</li><li>School Within a School at Goding ES</li></ul>
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Sandra Moscoso</div>
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(mom to 2 students at School Without Walls High School - which will lose a teacher in next year's budget, despite no change to enrollment)</div>
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