Does anyone know the status of the Proposed BASIS Expansion

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

It is if you're constantly claiming "pure lottery". Oh wowwww wards 3 and 6. God's gift to low income kids, BASIS is.

[Anonymous]

Penn Quarter is centrally located and close to all the metro lines so accessible to kids coming from all over the city. Dupont less so. Congress Heights is not at all.

[Anonymous]

Please identify some real estate properties in BASIS' target area that BASIS can afford.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone heard scuttle on where BASIS plans to place the elementary school between the two locations in their materials?

Well now they could use one of the eagle academy spaces that just became vacant. My guess is they will want the one on buzzard point and will use some vague language about proximity to (the navy yard portion of) ward 8 rather than lease the one that is actually in ward 8...

I'm not sure those are big enough, but maybe could be with renovations.

Of course their idiotic consultant report that recommended a Dupont location means they can't possibly be expected to locate in a low-income area.

I believe the Congress Heights campus can accommodate over 600 kids and it has a library, indoor pool, STEAM room, and more. It was renovated in 2014: https://www.eagleacademypcs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=752643&type=d&pREC_ID=1160364 It's 0.6 miles from the metro. I would love to see the PCSB tell BASIS that they can expand if they locate there...there was clearly some demand for charter elementary there.

Congress Heights lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

This. You could more easily make the case for Metro Center or L'Enfant Plaza on transit.

[Anonymous]

I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.

I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?

[Anonymous]

It is a nice campus — it even has a pool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.

I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?

The same mechanism eagle would have used to transfer the lease to friendship would be available to basis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.

I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?

The same mechanism eagle would have used to transfer the lease to friendship would be available to basis.

From listening to the PCSB meeting, I wasn't super clear on it, but I think it would have required DCPS or DGS to agree. Which they might have done in an emergency, but BASIS is not an emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.

I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?

The same mechanism eagle would have used to transfer the lease to friendship would be available to basis.

From listening to the PCSB meeting, I wasn't super clear on it, but I think it would have required DCPS or DGS to agree. Which they might have done in an emergency, but BASIS is not an emergency.

If basis wanted the school I think they have enough pull to get it, though there might be pressure on dcps to instead use it as a swing space. But I don't think basis wants it. They don't want to run a school with a lot of kids who have experienced generational poverty, and they probably aren't good at doing so. It would just be an interesting move for the school board to make. It would spare them needing to vote against basis if they can say they were willing to approve them at that location and the school withdrew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.

Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.

What are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.

Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?

Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.

Dupont Circle is literally 3 metro stops to BASIS DC on the red line.

[Anonymous]

There are 60 BASIS schools in the US and only one (BASIS DC) doesn't have K-4.

Time for PCSB to rectify this gap.