Which schools accept after count day?

[Anonymous]

The notion that a school's funding should be based on enrollment on annual "count day" is fraught with problems.

Schools should be fund on a monthly basis, using the previous month's enrollment. That would discourage dumping kinds after count day and encourage acceptong mid-year transfers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All schools are allowed. Free education, it's a right. As for the kids being dumped it is not a obvious as before because the funds follow the child thanks to OSSE.

Again, there is no data to support this. The only measure you can see is explosion data and most charters are around (0-1%). Show me stats that it happens now or even on the past then I will change my opinion. I will not accept a neighbor's cousins co-worker story as a fact that all (or even any) charters practice this. Even if a school or two was known to "counsel out" (again no stats), that does not mean it's common practice amongst all charters. If individual schools were judges based on their peers, there would be zero students in DCPS, just sayin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The notion that a school's funding should be based on enrollment on annual "count day" is fraught with problems.

Schools should be fund on a monthly basis, using the previous month's enrollment. That would discourage dumping kinds after count day and encourage acceptong mid-year transfers.

It already happens, funding follows the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All schools are allowed. Free education, it's a right. As for the kids being dumped it is not a obvious as before because the funds follow the child thanks to OSSE.

Again, there is no data to support this. The only measure you can see is explosion data and most charters are around (0-1%). Show me stats that it happens now or even on the past then I will change my opinion. I will not accept a neighbor's cousins co-worker story as a fact that all (or even any) charters practice this. Even if a school or two was known to "counsel out" (again no stats), that does not mean it's common practice amongst all charters. If individual schools were judges based on their peers, there would be zero students in DCPS, just sayin.

*explusion

[Anonymous]

So if funding follows the student, if for instance I'm called off the waiting list from school B does school A budget decrease? If so, how when the money has already been dispersed.

[Anonymous]

Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The notion that a school's funding should be based on enrollment on annual "count day" is fraught with problems.

Schools should be fund on a monthly basis, using the previous month's enrollment. That would discourage dumping kinds after count day and encourage acceptong mid-year transfers.

It already happens, funding follows the student.

Please clarify, PP. If funding follows the student, why is there a count day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All schools are allowed. Free education, it's a right. As for the kids being dumped it is not a obvious as before because the funds follow the child thanks to OSSE.

Actually, if funds follow the child, wouldn't it be MORE obvious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

Another instance of inequity among DCPS but yet the propaganda is always about charter schools?

[Anonymous]

When is count day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

Another instance of inequity among DCPS but yet the propaganda is always about charter schools?

Where do you get this idea? We are at an overenrolled DCPS and our funding is set before count day. When kids continue to enroll throughout the year, we do not get any more money in the budget that year and we do not get more teachers or classrooms or books or materials to make room for them. Count day is then used to set the estimated budget for the NEXT school year based on projected enrollment. And the projection is always wrong. And the numbers always continue to rise through the school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

I don't think the first part is true even a little bit. It's the same both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

I don't think the first part is true even a little bit. It's the same both ways.

That's my understanding as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

Another instance of inequity among DCPS but yet the propaganda is always about charter schools?

Another instance of charter supporters throwing the victim card based on incorrect information? shocking!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.

I don't think the first part is true even a little bit. It's the same both ways.

That's my understanding as well.

I think people are confused about the exact funding process. DCPS makes estimates at the beginning of the year and gets funding based on that- and there is no "true up" after that to match the exact funding to the final student count. Charters do the same thing- send an estimate of their count in July, and the first quarterly payment is based on that estimate. But then once the official count is complete, the remaining quarterly payments are "trued up" so that the final total annual amount will match the official count number.