Teacher preference for charters
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Anonymous
| How does this work? I am having trouble finding info online. Do all charters have it? Or does it vary from charter to charter? Is it guaranteed admission? Ahead or behind siblings? Anyone know? |
Anonymous
| Not sure whether it is ahead of siblings (assume so), but the profiles on the My School DC site say whether they have the preference. All the charters we were looking at them did have that preference. |
Anonymous
| I find it interesting that CCPCS does not have that listed but has historically offered it. |
Anonymous
| I didn't apply to the lottery this year so I can't answer this, but I would have thought that in the lottery process "teacher preference" would have been a selected for each of the charters (just like you would indicate if you have a sibling already at the school). And teacher preference shouldn't mean "your kids comes with you"...teachers still needed to enter the lottery...or so I thought (I'm sure some schools will bend that rule, especially when hiring decisions are made over the summer). |
Anonymous
It's only been legal for them to offer it starting this year. |
Anonymous
OP here. I don't understand this as I have heard that a different school has also done this for a while. How can that be? |
Anonymous
Are you confusing it with founders preference? That isn't new. Teacher preference is. Brand new this year and not legal last year. |
Anonymous
| What happened is that the schools that did it before were doing it illegally. Now it's legal (and indeed part of the lottery algorithm). |
Anonymous
Some schools did it a bit surreptitiously, others thought it was legal until they were explicitly told it wasn't. But there were only a few schools doing this, and only for a few years. |
Anonymous
| Is it just teacher preference or staff too? |
Anonymous
All staff, including teachers. Some schools opted not to do the preference at all. It was capped at 10% of students at the school. |
Anonymous
Also curious re part time teachers (art, PE, music) would qualify. |
Anonymous
CCPCS has done it - not just for founders Or founding teachers - but all teachers in the past. When they expanded there were quite a few new faces of students of new teachers. I am confident that it was not coincidence that every new teacher who had a child that their child won the lottery. |
Anonymous
Law says full time: "Child of a full-time employee of the public charter school who is a District resident; provided, that enrollment of such children is limited to no more than 10% of the school's total enrollment" http://lims.dccouncil.us/Download/32103/B20-0849-Enrollment.pdf (Page 42) |
Anonymous
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Law is full time teachers and staff, but capped at 10% of total enrollment. Of course, with schools that have WLs in the hundreds, it is no small deal. Still, it definitely increases the teacher and staff dedication to a school, and that improves the system for all students.
It's that same logic which allowed the Fenty twins to shoot to the top of the line even though they were OOB at Lafayette. If DCPS can do it then charters should too. |