One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts

[Anonymous]

Community Academy is going to close! Good riddance to piece of sh** Kent Amos and all the trouble he has caused.

It has some amazing properties, including the one next door to MV: Can't wait to see some good operators get into them!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-board-moves-to-revoke-charter-for-community-academy/2014/12/16/12eeac5a-84d8-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html

[Anonymous]

Prett sure you can enrich yourself from a charter, but you can't be quite as flagrant...

[Anonymous]

On one hand I commend the charter board for growing a pair and dealing with this problem.
On the other hand, won't someone think of the children?! !? Seriously - what happens to the children from this school?

[Anonymous]

Oh no, my neighbor works there.

[Anonymous]

^ the one on Allison st nw that is

[Anonymous]

That is amazing news. We will always be stunted by our worst flagrant bad actors, and this was an incredible disaster.

[Anonymous]

How will they handle the inventory of their buildings? Especially the on near Fort Totten metro. This may be good news for Bridges. They could just move across the parking lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On one hand I commend the charter board for growing a pair and dealing with this problem.
On the other hand, won't someone think of the children?! !? Seriously - what happens to the children from this school?

From what I hear, those children were getting a crap education (even by DC standards), so hopefully whatever happens with them (IB schools?) will be an improvement over Community Academy.

And SO HOPEFUL their buildings go to other charter schools!

[Anonymous]

Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On one hand I commend the charter board for growing a pair and dealing with this problem.
On the other hand, won't someone think of the children?! !? Seriously - what happens to the children from this school?

The logical thing would be to try and find a new operator but keep the kids in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

That would make it harder to weed out the bad actors. How can you close failing schools if you're not opening new ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

Because they finally shut down an old charter? Great logic. You must be involved in DCPS planning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

That would make it harder to weed out the bad actors. How can you close failing schools if you're not opening new ones?

They go to improving dcps schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

That would make it harder to weed out the bad actors. How can you close failing schools if you're not opening new ones?

They go to improving dcps schools

Come on, even the mediocre "improving" DCPS have waislists. Name one DCPS that have score above 60 and doesn't have a wait list. That baseline # is pretty sad but true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??

That would make it harder to weed out the bad actors. How can you close failing schools if you're not opening new ones?

They go to improving dcps schools

Come on, even the mediocre "improving" DCPS have waislists. Name one DCPS that have score above 60 and doesn't have a wait list. That baseline # is pretty sad but true.

That depends on the grade. Our IB school has scores around that range (math above, reading below), but we still have a few spots open. Just not in the early years.