The DC Council cast its first, and arguably most important, vote to advance the fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget last week. The Council budget leverages over $3 billion in temporary federal recovery funds and maintains the Mayor’s strong investments in […]
Under the current version of the DC budget proposal for FY 2022-2025, early educators participating in the District’s child care subsidy program would not see compensation increases until fiscal year (FY) 2023.
DCFPI staff have delivered testimony at eleven budget hearings since the Mayor proposed her budget on May 27th. In these testimonies, we reminded lawmakers of the unprecedented opportunity to leverage American Rescue Plan dollars and raise local revenue for […]
Despite continued resounding calls for transparency and reallocation of resources away from policing, the Mayor’s proposed budget does not meaningfully or intentionally cut the MPD budget.
DC must recognize that students have experienced significant social and emotional losses that will impede their ability to catch up academically if the city fails to adequately invest in school-based mental health resources.
DCFPI strongly urges the Council, Mayor, and public education officials to establish budgeting principles that make the DCPS budget process and funding for individual schools more stable.
Mayor Bowser missed an unprecedented opportunity to combine federal and local funding to make bold, transformative investments that would strengthen the District’s early childhood system and ensure a just recovery for all children, families, and early […]
My written testimony includes recommendations on the eviction moratorium, STAY DC, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Interim Disability Assistance, homelessness, and American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding.
DCFPI strongly supports a more simplified DC expungement process, an expansion of expungement-eligible offenses, and automatic expungement for decriminalized offenses, as envisioned in the Record Expungement Simplification to Offer Relief and Equity (RESTORE) […]
DC’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget should recognize the unprecedented harm and ongoing consequences of the health pandemic on students, educators, and families. DC policymakers have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make substantial efforts to reduce […]