New CLOSED PCSB meeting Wednesday Feb 19

[Anonymous]

https://dcpcsb.org/special-board-meeting-february-2025

The agenda says "Deliberate upon School Year 2024-25 Charter Reviews" and it will be a closed session. Anyone know what's up?

[Anonymous]

The list of schools under review in 2024-25 is:

Five Year Review
1. Capital Village PCS (P) 2. Girls Global PCS (P) 3. I Dream PCS (P) 4. Social Justice PCS (MP) 5. Sojourner Truth PCS (MP)
Ten Year Review
1. Children’s Guild PCS (G) 2. Kingsman PCS (G) 3. Monument PCS (G) 4. Washington Global PCS (MP)
Fifteen Year Renewal
No schools undergoing 15-year renewal
Twenty Year Review
1. AppleTree PCS (P) 2. Bridges PCS (P) 3. Early Childhood PCS (P) 4. Hope Community PCS (P) 5. Howard University Middle PCS (G) 6. MM Bethune PCS (P) 7. YouthBuild PCS (G)
Twnety Five Year Review
1. Capital City PCS (P) 2. Cedar Tree PCS (P) 3. Paul PCS (P) 4. IDEA PCS (P)
Thirty Year Renewal
No schools undergoing 30-year renewal

[Anonymous]

Finally they realize they need to make closure decisions before the MSDC deadline. At least I hope they do

[Anonymous]

Wow that's a huge list.

Maybe they're taking stock of how many closures the numbers point to, and considering what happens if they actually close that many schools in a single year. Because this year has a big group including many of the lowest rated.

My read on potential closures, just going by FAR and accountability scores mainly, is:

Capital Village
Girls Global
I Dream
Social Justice
Children's Guild
Maybe Howard (or conditions)
Maybe Bethune (or conditions)

And then next year,
Hope Community
IDEA
LEARN
SSMA
Rocketship (one or two campuses)

[Anonymous]

Closed? wtf?

Spill the tea.

[Anonymous]

I haven't a clue! The agenda doesn't say much. But it's during the daytime and on such short notice, I have to think something bad is going on.

[Anonymous]

Paul has a tiny enrollment on a giant campus in a neighborhood with overcrowded DCPS. I, for one, would like that building back in the DCPS inventory.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they're going to kick some of their reviews to next year, since there are so many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paul has a tiny enrollment on a giant campus in a neighborhood with overcrowded DCPS. I, for one, would like that building back in the DCPS inventory.

NP and I was just thinking about that today. They could create another middle or high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Paul has a tiny enrollment on a giant campus in a neighborhood with overcrowded DCPS. I, for one, would like that building back in the DCPS inventory.

NP and I was just thinking about that today. They could create another middle or high school.

Calm yourselves, Paul is not doing anywhere near badly enough to be closed-- its accountability scores are well above average. And it's not on the financial monitoring list either.

[Anonymous]

FOIA that shyte

[Anonymous]

Bumping this, anyone know what went down?

[Anonymous]

Actually it looks like the next two meetings are closed meetings with the same agenda-- Feb 24 and Feb 26. Clearly something weird is going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow that's a huge list.

Maybe they're taking stock of how many closures the numbers point to, and considering what happens if they actually close that many schools in a single year. Because this year has a big group including many of the lowest rated.

My read on potential closures, just going by FAR and accountability scores mainly, is:

Capital Village
Girls Global
I Dream
Social Justice
Children's Guild
Maybe Howard (or conditions)
Maybe Bethune (or conditions)

And then next year,
Hope Community
IDEA
LEARN
SSMA
Rocketship (one or two campuses)

Hope and IDEA are in this year’s review cycle. Aren’t they? Or are they being postponed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow that's a huge list.

Maybe they're taking stock of how many closures the numbers point to, and considering what happens if they actually close that many schools in a single year. Because this year has a big group including many of the lowest rated.

My read on potential closures, just going by FAR and accountability scores mainly, is:

Capital Village
Girls Global
I Dream
Social Justice
Children's Guild
Maybe Howard (or conditions)
Maybe Bethune (or conditions)

And then next year,
Hope Community
IDEA
LEARN
SSMA
Rocketship (one or two campuses)

Hope and IDEA are in this year’s review cycle. Aren’t they? Or are they being postponed?

Oh you are right, it's this year. My bad!