ENABLING CONDITIONS INVESTMENTS
Investments in our enabling conditions portfolio support Detroit’s education ecosystem. Funding supports partnerships, policies and actions that enable quality schools and educators to thrive.
Current Enabling Conditions Investments
Community Education Commission – School Quality Rating System
DCF is serving as a major funder and lead advisor of Mayor Duggan’s newly created Community Education Commission, to produce school reports and a school quality rating system. The rating system will provide an easy to understand rating of all Detroit Public Schools, to help parents identify the quality schools in Detroit.
Schools Impacted
All Detroit Schools
Impact
The School Rating system will provide a common language for communicating school quality to parents, funding bodies, and community members about the academic performance of individual schools. A guidebook with school quality ratings will launch in October 2019.
Harvard Strategic Data Fellows
Detroit Children’s Fund will fund the Harvard Strategic Data Fellow Program to address DPSCD’s broken data infrastructure and strategy. The grant will enable a build-out of a dynamic data team for DPSCD including (1) agency fellow and (2) data fellows. This team will address the core set of the district’s data needs, including updating old data and developing a strong data strategy, to ensure that the district has reliable data to improve student outcomes.
Schools Impacted
All 101 DPSCD schools
Impact
The programs will give all DPSCD teachers and leaders access to an instructionally useful student information system. This will not only improve data practices at all DPSCD schools, but will also give teachers and leaders the tools and insight to advance student outcomes.