Charter and DCPS awkward in a crisis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's encouraging that the Chancellor wants to not only align calendars and policies with charters, but also with NVA and MD for the coming school year.

I get the idea but as a parent of students in charters also hope that this is where our autonomy may be most useful. If the Chancellor's plans make no sense, I don't want to go along with it.

I'm glad our distance learning, for example, isn't ending with DCPS. We get a lot out of it and summer will be long enough already.

[Anonymous]

DL has NOT been good for my child. Just not a good method for her. That said, I am not happy that my charter followed DCPS and is ending on May 29. We did not align for the Spring Break so why start now? Suddenly, when it was an opportunity to end early, we were all in with the DCPS schedule. Wtf??!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if charters will offer more seats to staff kids in the future. As well as just not offer any more lottery seats and keep class sizes smaller or be encouraged to make them larger to max out the 7-9 kids in a classroom on any given day.

Our charter runs 22-25 kids in a class will the hold at 24 for next year?? 8 per day or week?? IDK.

I do know they want to follow dcps closely. So they can lobby for the days and students to count for funding. They can't get too far off of dcps plan if they want to be able keep funding and have DL and IP days count the same.

Not all charters have a staff preference. And there is a legal ceiling - they can’t just enroll more children if staff because they want to.

As for space, expect your school to have an alternating schedule if they can’t spread everyone out. They have to meet OSSE’s requirements for school days, which were reduced for all. Funding is tied to enrollment, nothing else.