LL Video: Inside the DCPS Warehouse
This morning, Mayor Adrian Fenty and schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee toured the D.C. Public Schools’ central warehouse, located in an industrial park off Bladensburg Road in Ward 5. There, Rhee has discovered, sit tons of supplies, furniture, textbooks, and other stuff that could be in the hands of DCPS students but isn’t. Intrepid videographer Arthur Delaney and I took along my shitty Nikon point-and-shoot for the first installment of Loose Lips Video. Enjoy:
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
nice job Mike. I can only think of the millions of dollars DCPS/DC taxpayers have spent on procurement software and other IT systems, only to see items piled up like that.
Anyone who thinks DCPS status quo was acceptable should be required to see this.
August 5th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I like the style of this piece. Thanks.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Great piece. Keep it up, this stuff need to be shown to get a sense of what the city is up against in this reform effort.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
[...] And one particular Rhee anecdote has been making the rounds to great effect lately. The story involves a volunteer group for a high school that was trying to get much-needed textbooks from a nearby middle school. The volunteers were told they couldn’t just take the books from the middle school directly to the high school; instead, those texts had to do time in the school system’s messy warehouse. [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 10:25 am
[...] Lowdown: OK, the warehouse was bad. But now you’re just picking on [...]