Testimony at the Budget Oversight Hearing for DC Public Schools
By Qubilah Huddleston • March 28, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
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Testimony at the Budget Oversight Roundtable for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
By Kate Coventry • March 28, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
I am here today to ask the District to end encampment clearings and no encamping zones and to ask the Council to request the agency submits a detailed budget.
Testimony at the Budget Oversight Hearing for the DC Department of Health Care Finance
By Kate Coventry • March 28, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
I would like to focus my testimony on the proposed, simplified DC Healthcare Alliance recertification process and the need for services for residents with low incomes who have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), also known as acquired brain injuries (ABIs).
First Look at Mayor Bowser’s Budget Reveals Major Investments in Housing Affordability, Racial Equity, but Unmet Need for DC’s Most Excluded
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 28, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
Mayor Bowser released a budget plan for fiscal year (FY) 2023 that acknowledges the starkly uneven recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and leverages DC’s growing revenues to take aim at longstanding inequities harming Black residents in particular. But the DC […]
Testimony at the Budget Oversight Hearing for the Office of the State Superintendent
By Danielle Hamer • March 28, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
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Testimony at the Budget Oversight Hearing for Events DC, Finance Duties, and the Office of Chief Financial Officer
By Erica Williams • March 21, 2022 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget
My testimony today will focus on three recommendations, two for ensuring the District’s recovery is inclusive of undocumented and otherwise excluded workers and one for ensuring equitable and sensible tax policy.
Testimony at the Budget Oversight Hearing for the Department of Behavioral Health
By Qubilah Huddleston • March 21, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
While most children are no longer learning remotely, the mental, emotional, and physical toll of the pandemic on DC students is more pronounced than ever.
New DC Public Schools Budget Model Makes Progress Towards More Transparency and Flexibility, but Falls Short on Addressing Structural Funding Inadequacy and Inequity
By Qubilah Huddleston and Michael Johnson Jr. • March 14, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education / Revenue & Budget
More than half of the schools within DC Public Schools (DCPS) have fiscal year (FY) 2023 initial budgets that are lower than their FY 2022 budgets that were boosted by federal funds. Additionally, 73 schools have initial FY 2023 budgets that would not keep up […]
Testimony at the Performance Oversight Hearing for the Office of Chief Financial Officer
By Tazra Mitchell • March 4, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
It is critically important that the OCFO improve their accuracy with revenue forecasting, which would better enable the Mayor and DC Council to use DC’s resources fully and effectively to help residents and businesses.
Testimony at the Performance Oversight Hearing for of the DC Education Agencies on Improving Transparency of the DCPS Enrollment Reserve
By Michael Johnson Jr. • March 2, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
This testimony focuses specifically on improving transparency of the DC Public School (DCPS) Enrollment Reserve.
