Feb 23 PCSB meeting thread

[Anonymous]

It also feels like PCSB is just running the clock on financial closures due to enrollment, so they don't have to acknowledge performance based closures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It also feels like PCSB is just running the clock on financial closures due to enrollment, so they don't have to acknowledge performance based closures.

Running the clock on academic closures is bad. Running the clock on financial closures is equally bad, maybe even worse. The financial closures have put kids behind in the lottery and put staff out of jobs without benefits and with little notice. It is the worst part of DC's charter experiment and it's avoidable with a good authorizer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It also feels like PCSB is just running the clock on financial closures due to enrollment, so they don't have to acknowledge performance based closures.

Running the clock on academic closures is bad. Running the clock on financial closures is equally bad, maybe even worse. The financial closures have put kids behind in the lottery and put staff out of jobs without benefits and with little notice. It is the worst part of DC's charter experiment and it's avoidable with a good authorizer.

It really grates on me how the PCSB does whatever they want, ignores their own guidance at will, and then constantly praises themselves as so "intentional", so rigorous, etc. Barf.

I wonder if a merger of Rocketship locations would fall under the Mergers and Acquisitions policy-- but of course PCSB will feel free to ignore this like they do all their other policies. Rocketship is all one LEA, and this wouldn't cause a change in total enrollment, so maybe it wouldn't trigger this policy. I guess it would just be a charter amendment, then.

The KIPP review hearing will also be interesting, since some KIPP campuses are doing well and others quite poorly.