Creative Minds Int'l PCS -- "Students at DC charter school lose teacher for second consecutive academic year"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fundamental failure with DC charter laws is the lack of accountability. Once you have a charter, you have to be grossly incompetent to lose your charter. And the whole enrollment system is designed to keep you open, even if you are filled with kids who have you as their 13th choice or whatever. So every couple years there will be these threads about CMI that ought to alarm the right officials, and unless it's wholly mismanaged, it will still be open 20 years from now.

In the period between 2012 and 2020, 26 charter LEA schools/programs closed; 18 because of academics and 8 because of financial management.... but, yeah, no accountability.

I think PP's point was that *gross* incompetence gets schools shut down, but merely moderate incompetence is tolerated by the PCSB for decades

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fundamental failure with DC charter laws is the lack of accountability. Once you have a charter, you have to be grossly incompetent to lose your charter. And the whole enrollment system is designed to keep you open, even if you are filled with kids who have you as their 13th choice or whatever. So every couple years there will be these threads about CMI that ought to alarm the right officials, and unless it's wholly mismanaged, it will still be open 20 years from now.

In the period between 2012 and 2020, 26 charter LEA schools/programs closed; 18 because of academics and 8 because of financial management.... but, yeah, no accountability.

I think PP's point was that *gross* incompetence gets schools shut down, but merely moderate incompetence is tolerated by the PCSB for decades

Yes, if there's an even bigger issue here, it's that the DCPCSB is doing a huge disservice to children allowing schools, like the one mentioned in this exact thread, to remain open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fundamental failure with DC charter laws is the lack of accountability. Once you have a charter, you have to be grossly incompetent to lose your charter. And the whole enrollment system is designed to keep you open, even if you are filled with kids who have you as their 13th choice or whatever. So every couple years there will be these threads about CMI that ought to alarm the right officials, and unless it's wholly mismanaged, it will still be open 20 years from now.

In the period between 2012 and 2020, 26 charter LEA schools/programs closed; 18 because of academics and 8 because of financial management.... but, yeah, no accountability.

I think PP's point was that *gross* incompetence gets schools shut down, but merely moderate incompetence is tolerated by the PCSB for decades

Yes, if there's an even bigger issue here, it's that the DCPCSB is doing a huge disservice to children allowing schools, like the one mentioned in this exact thread, to remain open.

Yes. Obviously if they suddenly closed a bunch of schools, ousting thousands of kids, that would be unmanageable. And embarrassing for the charter "movement", and DCPS would have to somehow cope with thousands more kids on little notice. But there are WAY too many schools barely squeaking by, getting passed along on PCSB discretion, performance plans, tiny specks of improvement being over-interpreted, propped up by their parent organization, etc. It's embarrassing. Nobody likes to see kids experience a shutdown, but if the alternative is schools staying crappy for decades, I guess that's how it has to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shame on WUSA for picking up this story. It's not a unique one, just one that some privileged parent pitched. His kid is welcomed to attend Bruce Monroe.

Put the shoes on the other foot!!

[Anonymous]

I wonder if it's the same parent complaining about painting easter eggs