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Anonymous wrote:The Center City Public Charter Schools are a fraud, all six of them. The converted Catholic schools should never have been granted charters in the first place. What happened is these schools could not survive as Catholic schools, they were loosing enrollment. The Archdiocese of Washington came up with a scheme to convert its failing city schools to charter schools and charge rent for the use of these schools. City officials should have realized these schools were failing for a reason: They simply were not good schools. Now that the schools are charter schools, we know they have posted low test scores. All six schools have had very low test scores in fact. One of the schools, the brightwood campus has had three principals in as many years. Center City Public Charter Schools has had three Chief Executive Officers in as many years also. Originally, there were seven schools which converted, but one school, the Brentwood campus was closed after one year due to falling enrollement. The interesting thing about this closing is that there was not one peep about this at the Charter Board web site. I'm not kidding about that, there was not one single thing about it. Parents, stay away from these outrageously bad schools. D.C. Charter Board, start looking into these schools, start giving us some answers and close these schools down for good.

This +10000

These schools were failures. Then came the vouchers. Before these schools were converted, most students were there on vouchers, and the schools could STILL not fill half the seats. Then, facing anemic enrollment, they talked about converting to a charter so that the taxpayers could pay for these failing schools. Now, the schools are still failing, but are using millions more taxpayer dollars. It's shameful.

So negative all of this is. We got good numbers for the waitlist for the Petworth Campus, and compared to the DCPS we are currently aPetworth test results and after school programs look SO much better. We are considering enrolling our kids.

[Anonymous]

I once visited the Congress Heights campus for a talk with the oldest children there. The staff was very pleasant and professional. After visiting with the students, all I can say is: Absolutely.Not

Now that was one Center City campus, not all.

Sorry kids, but I've met and spoken with a lot of 13 and 14 year olds and this group was the rudest and least informed group I have ever met. I wept for your teachers.

[Anonymous]

I live right by one of these schools - the one on East Cap. The kids are fine. I met a mom whose son was there. She was happy but clearly just using the school for preschool.