Why isn't there another academic charter middle school?

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Anonymous wrote:I think many would say DCI fills that gap, and there are many, many immersion families at feeders that are there as much for the DCI feed as the language itself. We could debate whether DCI really really provides “differentiation/advanced classes”, but I think the buy in from MC EOTP families shows that they see the academics as “good enough.”

if you dont win the lottery an get into a DCI feeder in PK, you are pretty much out of luck getting to DCI

Not true. They went deep on their Mandarin list. Also, you can get into Stokes or MV pretty much any grade after 3rd.

not true. And the reason they go deep into mandarin is list is because there is no demand for it in middle school. They shouldnt even offer it at DCI and instead offer more seats for spanish

So take a fifth grade seat at MV and then go for Spanish. The DCI feeders have all expanded and are not as impossible to get into in elementary as they were even 5 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

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Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

They already applied for an elementary school and were turned down.

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Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

Sadly, I think both of these things can be true. They can have top scores under the proposed rubric and also not likely to be approved in the current environment. Cause, "equity".

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Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

Sadly, I think both of these things can be true. They can have top scores under the proposed rubric and also not likely to be approved in the current environment. Cause, "equity".

Sadly, I think you may be right. The PCSB “rules” only allow top schools to replicate. It’s possible they might suspend any approvals which they’ve done before.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

Sadly, I think both of these things can be true. They can have top scores under the proposed rubric and also not likely to be approved in the current environment. Cause, "equity".

Sadly, I think you may be right. The PCSB “rules” only allow top schools to replicate. It’s possible they might suspend any approvals which they’ve done before.

I doubt they would set up a system that requires them to approve more of BASIS schools. They already had a chance to approve one and clearly did not want to.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Sojourner Truth not on this list? Curious why DCUM ignores it.

It only has one year of test scores that are decent, but nothing compared to Latin and BASIS. They serve a lower at-risk student population than many other charter. middles, so their scores should be comparable to BASIS/ Latin.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

Sadly, I think both of these things can be true. They can have top scores under the proposed rubric and also not likely to be approved in the current environment. Cause, "equity".

Sadly, I think you may be right. The PCSB “rules” only allow top schools to replicate. It’s possible they might suspend any approvals which they’ve done before.

I doubt they would set up a system that requires them to approve more of BASIS schools. They already had a chance to approve one and clearly did not want to.

Nothing requires the PCSB to approve. Their systems work to narrow schools that are eligible. Under the old system, a single site school had to be at the top level for approval (tier 1). Under their new model, Basis is the only high school that’s in the top level. Perhaps this will change and they’ll allow schools in the top two levels to be considered.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i dont think the charter board would necessarily approve basis in dc today. they obtain a high achieving student body using their particular branding and an up or out model to discourage lots of students from enrolling. id maybe like to see dcps open some kind of citywide magnet middle in a eotp location like that is pretty easy to get to from east of the river.

Parent of very happy BASIS kids here. I am certain PCSB would not approve BASIS in the current "performative equity" environment.

In fact, under the PCSB's new proposed model for quality, BASIS is the only high school to make the top cut and one of only a handful of schools of any grade spanns (elem/middle/high) to make it. So they probably could get approved if interested in expanding. What's going to shock families with what the PCSB is doing is when you find out that many of the other schools preferred here (including some mentioned in this thread) don't make the cut.

Sadly, I think both of these things can be true. They can have top scores under the proposed rubric and also not likely to be approved in the current environment. Cause, "equity".

Sadly, I think you may be right. The PCSB “rules” only allow top schools to replicate. It’s possible they might suspend any approvals which they’ve done before.

I doubt they would set up a system that requires them to approve more of BASIS schools. They already had a chance to approve one and clearly did not want to.

Nothing requires the PCSB to approve. Their systems work to narrow schools that are eligible. Under the old system, a single site school had to be at the top level for approval (tier 1). Under their new model, Basis is the only high school that’s in the top level. Perhaps this will change and they’ll allow schools in the top two levels to be considered.

Huh? Yes they absolutely do have to approve new charter applications. They can reject it for any number of reasons, like not having confidence in the leadership team, not making a convincing showing of demand, no good special Ed plan to etc.

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BASIS didn't have enough kids left on the waitlist to fill up another school. 135 matches, 155 on the waitlist, 53 offers. That means there were at most 102 kids remaining on the waitlist (probably a lot less). So another BASIS could only exist if it were considerably smaller. And then there would be basically nobody left for 12th grade.