Notice of Petitions to Open New Charters
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Anonymous
No more or less likely than the head of KIPP DC leaving her job if it is approved. These groups are usually more of an advisory board. Their application is 800+ pages though, so I may have missed something. |
Anonymous
Why doesnt anyone think of kids are are two or three grade levels ahead of their peers? And no, the answer isn't "spend over a million on a house to be inbounds for janney" |
Anonymous
Because a charter can't be designed around those kids. They must be open and prepared to serve everyone who enrolls -- and 98% of kids in DC, even the wealthy ones, are not 2 or 3 grade levels ahead. |
Anonymous
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A PP is right.
Citizens of the World is going to be the new charter school higher SES families get excited about. It proposes locating in Wards 4, 5 or 1 and ultimately being a PK3-12 school. They would start with one campus serving PK3-K but ultimately hope to have 2 PK3-5 campuses feeding a unified 6-12th campus. https://dcpcsb.egnyte.com/dl/u2nq10LXtd |
Anonymous
yep. they located in Williamsburg and Crown Heights in NYC, so plenty of gentrifiers nearby. And they specifically want diversity: http://www.citizensoftheworld.org/Diverse-Learning-Communities Parents of 18 month old twins Milo and Octavia of Manor Park/Brightwood/Eckington/Woodridge, get excited! |
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Why doesnt anyone think of kids are are two or three grade levels ahead of their peers? And no, the answer isn't "spend over a million on a house to be inbounds for janney" Do you mean gifted and talented? That's not the same as class. G&T kids from low income families do exist. Some highly gifted kids from all backgrounds have social-emotional needs that DCPS can't and won't address. But there is a DCPS office of advanced instruction http://dcps.dc.gov/page/advanced-and-enriched-instruction So how would a charter find kids who would benefit from an academically advanced but age-appropriate peer group from middle class families? Test-in? Wrong. It's illegal for charters to use criteria like these for admissions. DCPS can set criteria for participation in advanced learning. Big picture, there is nothing stopping families of any income enrolling in charter schools if they get a lottery spot. Ask Yu Ying. |
Anonymous
Do you mean gifted and talented? That's not the same as class. G&T kids from low income families do exist. Some highly gifted kids from all backgrounds have social-emotional needs that DCPS can't and won't address. But there is a DCPS office of advanced instruction http://dcps.dc.gov/page/advanced-and-enriched-instruction So how would a charter find kids who would benefit from an academically advanced but age-appropriate peer group from middle class families? Test-in? Wrong. It's illegal for charters to use criteria like these for admissions. DCPS can set criteria for participation in advanced learning. Big picture, there is nothing stopping families of any income enrolling in charter schools if they get a lottery spot. Ask Yu Ying. Definitions used to define who is and who is not gifted is based on archaic, culturally oppressive conceptions such as "IQ" which is just a tool created in the early 20th Century by a couple of white dudes. Intelligence is fluid and a test that just gives higher points to someone who is better immersed in the tenets of western civilization isn't a sound way to create an academic program. |
Anonymous
| Wonderful news!!!! More choices for our kids! |
Anonymous
Curb your enthusiasm. None of these are approved yet. Two were rejected last year, and are trying again. |
Anonymous
| CyberTek high school sounds like the setting for an 80s hacker kid movie. |
Anonymous
It sounds very duplicative of Washington Leadership Academy in Ward 5. |
Anonymous
I beg to differ. We are raising two kids w/ one wage earner making $90k per year. We are middle class. |
Anonymous
| Check the kind of school that Interactive Academy is based on. https://youtu.be/JzyBVblGFb4. Any thoughts? |
Anonymous
I think your link is broken |
Anonymous
Here is better link: https://youtu.be/yFSb6lOWogM |