Harmony school of excellence pcs scrutiny
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Anonymous
| Using tax payers dollar for teachers and staff from Turkey. Also they take an annual trip to Houston for a meeting at its headquarters. Anyone attend this school? |
Anonymous
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What's your point OP? There should be scrutiny?
A trip to Houston is hardly a junket, especially in summer. |
Anonymous
| Harmony is an extremely weird chapter in the whole charter school thing. yet now that I have seen what DCPS can do, I am less phased by it. |
Anonymous
| Harmony is riddled with scandal. Just do a Google search. The administration does not evaluate teachers effectively. The leadership is disjointed, jaded, and incompetent. The leadership relies on here-say to govern Harmony. Personal vendettas are waged on specific employees, parents, and students who are of the LGBTQA community or identify as African-American males. The school, in DC, lacks the adequate resources and vision to meet the needs of every student. There are students who were referred for psycho-educational testing, to determine their eligibility for receiving 504 and/or special education services, due to the costs associated with the assessments. Each one of the school administrators has a troubled and scandalous career history. Overall, this is not a school that fully includes and instructs all of its students equitably; nor is it a school that fosters professional development and job security. |
Anonymous
| Harmony is riddled with scandal. Just do a Google search. The administration does not evaluate teachers effectively. The leadership is disjointed, jaded, and incompetent. The leadership relies on here-say to govern Harmony. Personal vendettas are waged on specific employees, parents, and students who are of the LGBTQA community or identify as African-American males. The school, in DC, lacks the adequate resources and vision to meet the needs of every student. There are students who were referred for psycho-educational testing, to determine their eligibility for receiving 504 and/or special education services, due to the costs associated with the assessments. Each one of the school administrators has a troubled and scandalous career history. Overall, this is not a school that fully includes and instructs all of its students equitably; nor is it a school that fosters professional development and job security. |
Anonymous
| We were matched with Harmony and very interested given their 'successes' in PG. This concerns me. Who is in the leadership of Harmony? |
Anonymous
Never heard of it. Perhaps it's a new Chinese immersion charter? |
Anonymous
http://www.harmonydcpcs.org/#!trustees/c1tcu |
Anonymous
| Quite stunning that a charter school board in DC doesn't have a single African-American member? |
Anonymous
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Probably would have been helpful for OP to link to the article that prompted the thread.
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/150578984-story |
Anonymous
Perhaps they are not very good at Harmony? |
Anonymous
| The Turkish connection has been known, and reported on before, including on 60 Minutes. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-charter-schools-tied-to-powerful-turkish-imam/ |
Anonymous
| I read the article twice, and I just don't get it. But I am appalled by the scores. Why aren't they shut down? I thought that successful charter schools need space. |
Anonymous
They only had 66 students last year. I assume that if nothing changes after this year's PARCC they will get Tier 3 and the DCPCSB will begin to move toward closure. |
Anonymous
A link wasn't available during the time I heard it on the news. |