With Trump/DeVos, more for-profit, corporate charters like BASIS in the future

[Anonymous]

No better place to bring this future than DC! Tied to all the research that parents/families end up self-sorting when given choice, this sounds like the perfect way to re-segregate our schools (this time by ability, not race!)

https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/charter-schools-and-voucher-schools-are-virtually-identical/

[Anonymous]

I find it bizarre that for-profit "universities" are pretty much universally derided and scoffed at (U. of Phoenix, Strayer, TRUMP University!) as worthless, low-rent, yielding degress that you shouldn't want to have on your resume but that's the kind of thing DeVoss wants to use for American children during primary school?

[Anonymous]

I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

How much did you donate to the teachers' fund?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

How much did you donate to the teachers' fund?

[Anonymous]

Not if you don't sign your kids up. Plenty of charters don't take off , if enough people at suspicious.

[Anonymous]

Funny but these charter school companies are all expanded overseas just like failing US restaurant chains.

[Anonymous]

BASIS is a nonprofit network...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS is a nonprofit network...

No it isn't. The individual schools may be nonprofits (the Basis DC one is) but they return 10-20% of budgets to the Basis.ed CMO which is for profit. The BasisbDC board pays less than some of the others because the local board negotiated a lower management fee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

What better way to make crappy charters look better than to strip the public school of basic needs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

What better way to make crappy charters look better than to strip the public school of basic needs?

The charters receive those funds too. So it will be a race to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Good.