BASIS: PCSB staff recommends conditional continuance due to SWD

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Anonymous wrote:SPED percentages at Basis are 3.5-4.5%, compared to 8.5% for other DCPS charters.

Basis is 100% lottery (except for sibling preference) and all kids have an equal chance of getting in. Basis isn’t a good fit for every kid, regardless of whether they have a disability or not. If they don’t apply because they think Basis is too rigorous or don’t like the physical layout or whatever, that is their choice. Same, if they choose to drop out and enroll elsewhere.

Many charters and other public schools in wards 7 and 8 are 0% white and Janney is 72% white and all receive public funds, but let’s criticize Basis because they have 28 SPED kids and other DC charters of similar size have an average of 54 SPED kids. Really?

Fact: The education system in DC needs to be fixed. Look at where DC ranks compared to the 50 states:

• Highest Dropout Rate: 51
• Lowest Math Test Score: 47
• Lowest Reading Test Score: 49
• Lowest Median SAT Score: 51
• Highest Percentage of Threatened/Injured HS Students: 41

Fact: Basis is a rare success story in DC. In only a decade, its results have been excellent. Based on the numbers, it is now the top charter school in the city.

Fact: For those SPED kids who stick it out (many non-SPED and SPED kids don’t), the results have been similarly impressive.

Fact: Basis is a last-resort option for parents who would otherwise flee to the burbs for better education.

PCSB, please don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

yes, really, I will criticize Basis for pushing out SN kids and making it clear they shouldn’t apply.

signed,
SN mom

Great. Enjoy making it all about your kid's needs. I will do the same for my NT kid and support the existing structure that helps my kid.

See how that works?

yes, I will continue to fight for my child’s needs and legal rights. Any other questions? Plenty of private schools around if your snowflake is so tender that they can’t be around “those kids.”

(also - the difference between me and you is that I’m just asking for my child to be included with your kid with appropriate supports - and there are plenty of models for how to do that without detracting from the Basis strengths. You apparently want my kid excluded so you get gets access to all the benefits.)

No one said anything about wanting your kid excluded or that they shouldn't help all kids. But you are obsessing about a school with a handfull fewer SN kids than others. Basis is small and it is new and presents a model that is different than most DC schools, particularly about social promotion.

I support adovating for special ed resources but perhaps if its so easy make SN kids sucessful, you should write them a letter and tell them how.

It's not a "handful fewer." It's half as many as they should have. That's a big deal. And yes I do know how they could better serve kids with SN and I posted it repeatedly, but I'm sure BASIS has no actual commitment to helping SN kids. You appear to just believe that Basis is "special" and shouldn't have to follow the law.

Based on what, PP? You have accused, tried, and conviced the school on a public forum- but do you actually have a kid there?

Hmm, they are at danger of losing their charter approval because of their failure to serve SN kids, yet I'm supposed to believe that they have a mission to support SN kids. Ok! Makes sense.

So any school who's mission is not to support SN kids should be shut down.... gotcha.

Every public school has a legal mission to support SN kids, yes. If they are a charter and fail at this, they can have their charter revoked.

No, they have a legal OBLIGATION, not mission. Anyhow, the kids at basis who do receive services do much better than elsewhere.

That's because BASIS has almost no students with Level 3 and Level 4 IEPs, which are the most services. If you're comparing BASIS's SPED students to the general pool of SPED students, it won't be a fair comparison because BASIS pretty much only has SPED students who receive less services.

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Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

DC PCSB staff also found the school has not committed a material violation of law or its charter, and has not committed fiscal mismanagement, meaning the school has adhered to generally accepted accounting principles, has not engaged in a pattern of fiscal mismanagement, and is economically viable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

It specifically says in the report that BASIS is worse than most.

See Appendix A, page 31 "Of the eight areas
OSSE monitors, BASIS DC PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during
the review period. DC PCSB compared this performance to other charter LEAs in DC and,
based on this comparison, determined the school had among the highest instances of
identified noncompliance in one area: Child Find Monitoring."

Page 33: "For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 17.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 13 applicable
reporting periods.60 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed findings in SY 2018 –
19 through SY 2020 – 21."

Page 33-34: "A reevaluation is used to determine whether a student with an identified disability still
has a disability. Schools must conduct a reevaluation for each student with a disability
once every three years. OSSE identified BASIS DC PCS for noncompliance for not
adhering to the required timeline for reevaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2016 – 17 May 2017 (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)
§ SY 2017 – 18 May 2018 (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 August 2018 (April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 May 2019 (October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q4 (SY 2018; April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2020 – 21 Q2 – Q3 (SY 2020; October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021)

For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 32.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in seven reporting periods out of the 15 applicable
reporting periods.62 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2016 – 17 through
SY 2019 – 20 findings. SY 2020 – 21 findings are not yet due for correction."


Come on, BASIS boosters. This is embarrassing. Better than 32.8% of charters? Hardly any kids with special needs should make it easier to get it right for the few they do have. But nope. Still having violations every year. They seem to have taken corrective action steps to get it together for their review, but really, this is not good. Crap services, people leave, ta-da it's a well-performing school! Yay BASIS!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

DC PCSB staff also found the school has not committed a material violation of law or its charter, and has not committed fiscal mismanagement, meaning the school has adhered to generally accepted accounting principles, has not engaged in a pattern of fiscal mismanagement, and is economically viable.

right, nothing to see here! they’re just at risk of losing their charter due to failure to serve SN kids. nbd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

Many schools have them, but if you read the report you'll see that BASIS is doing worse than most charters on this metric.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

how many charters have their charters placed at risk and are heavily criticized for doing worse than other charters? there’s nothing normal or good about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

It specifically says in the report that BASIS is worse than most.

See Appendix A, page 31 "Of the eight areas
OSSE monitors, BASIS DC PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during
the review period. DC PCSB compared this performance to other charter LEAs in DC and,
based on this comparison, determined the school had among the highest instances of
identified noncompliance in one area: Child Find Monitoring."

Page 33: "For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 17.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 13 applicable
reporting periods.60 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed findings in SY 2018 –
19 through SY 2020 – 21."

Page 33-34: "A reevaluation is used to determine whether a student with an identified disability still
has a disability. Schools must conduct a reevaluation for each student with a disability
once every three years. OSSE identified BASIS DC PCS for noncompliance for not
adhering to the required timeline for reevaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2016 – 17 May 2017 (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)
§ SY 2017 – 18 May 2018 (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 August 2018 (April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 May 2019 (October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q4 (SY 2018; April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2020 – 21 Q2 – Q3 (SY 2020; October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021)

For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 32.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in seven reporting periods out of the 15 applicable
reporting periods.62 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2016 – 17 through
SY 2019 – 20 findings. SY 2020 – 21 findings are not yet due for correction."


Come on, BASIS boosters. This is embarrassing. Better than 32.8% of charters? Hardly any kids with special needs should make it easier to get it right for the few they do have. But nope. Still having violations every year. They seem to have taken corrective action steps to get it together for their review, but really, this is not good. Crap services, people leave, ta-da it's a well-performing school! Yay BASIS!

They voilated the timelines for reevalutaion. That's why we should shut them down? You have NO idea if the services are crap or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

how many charters have their charters placed at risk and are heavily criticized for doing worse than other charters? there’s nothing normal or good about it.

Well, I hope this is the first of many. With the PCSB rolling out new application criteria and a new rating system, it seems like they're serious about not letting this slide anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

It specifically says in the report that BASIS is worse than most.

See Appendix A, page 31 "Of the eight areas
OSSE monitors, BASIS DC PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during
the review period. DC PCSB compared this performance to other charter LEAs in DC and,
based on this comparison, determined the school had among the highest instances of
identified noncompliance in one area: Child Find Monitoring."

Page 33: "For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 17.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 13 applicable
reporting periods.60 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed findings in SY 2018 –
19 through SY 2020 – 21."

Page 33-34: "A reevaluation is used to determine whether a student with an identified disability still
has a disability. Schools must conduct a reevaluation for each student with a disability
once every three years. OSSE identified BASIS DC PCS for noncompliance for not
adhering to the required timeline for reevaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2016 – 17 May 2017 (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)
§ SY 2017 – 18 May 2018 (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 August 2018 (April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 May 2019 (October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q4 (SY 2018; April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2020 – 21 Q2 – Q3 (SY 2020; October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021)

For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 32.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in seven reporting periods out of the 15 applicable
reporting periods.62 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2016 – 17 through
SY 2019 – 20 findings. SY 2020 – 21 findings are not yet due for correction."


Come on, BASIS boosters. This is embarrassing. Better than 32.8% of charters? Hardly any kids with special needs should make it easier to get it right for the few they do have. But nope. Still having violations every year. They seem to have taken corrective action steps to get it together for their review, but really, this is not good. Crap services, people leave, ta-da it's a well-performing school! Yay BASIS!

They voilated the timelines for reevalutaion. That's why we should shut them down? You have NO idea if the services are crap or not.

Honey get a grip. Nobody's talking about shutting them down. It's why they should get a conditional continuance and have to do annual reporting. And they shouldn't get to open any more schools until they correctly operate the school they do have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

how many charters have their charters placed at risk and are heavily criticized for doing worse than other charters? there’s nothing normal or good about it.

It's not at risk. They approved it and want them to amend their marketing. That's bascially the entire thing.


Meanwhile over at MV:

During fiscal year (FY) 2017, Mundo Verde PCS properly reported 11 procurement contract packages. During FY 2018, the school properly reported five procurement contract packages. The inconsistency between the number of procurement contract submissions may be due to many of the FY 2017 contracts being reported as multi-year contracts, which would not require resubmission the following year.

SPED: Of the seven monitored areas, Mundo Verde PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during the review period. Further information on OSSE’s special education compliance findings is reported in the remainder of this section.

OSSE monitors schools in three areas related to the timeliness of creating and
maintaining compliant Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students: Initial
Evaluation, Reevaluation, and Part C to B Transition.
Initial Evaluation37
An initial evaluation is a process used to determine whether a student has a disability and, if so, the nature and extent of the special education and related services the student needs. Mundo Verde PCS was flagged for noncompliance for not adhering to the required timeline for initial evaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q1 (July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q2 (October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2018 – 19 Q1 and Q2 (July 1, 2018 – December 30, 2018)
For comparison, across the last five years, Mundo Verde PCS performed better than
approximately 12.7% of LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 14
applicable reporting periods.
38 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2018 – 19
findings and SY 2019 – 20 findings are not yet due for correction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

whatever point you are trying to make, you are making it very badly!

The point PP is making is that charter reviews all show many voilations over the years. This is normal -- and good. The school corrects those things and marches on.

how many charters have their charters placed at risk and are heavily criticized for doing worse than other charters? there’s nothing normal or good about it.

It's not at risk. They approved it and want them to amend their marketing. That's bascially the entire thing.


Meanwhile over at MV:

During fiscal year (FY) 2017, Mundo Verde PCS properly reported 11 procurement contract packages. During FY 2018, the school properly reported five procurement contract packages. The inconsistency between the number of procurement contract submissions may be due to many of the FY 2017 contracts being reported as multi-year contracts, which would not require resubmission the following year.

SPED: Of the seven monitored areas, Mundo Verde PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during the review period. Further information on OSSE’s special education compliance findings is reported in the remainder of this section.

OSSE monitors schools in three areas related to the timeliness of creating and
maintaining compliant Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students: Initial
Evaluation, Reevaluation, and Part C to B Transition.
Initial Evaluation37
An initial evaluation is a process used to determine whether a student has a disability and, if so, the nature and extent of the special education and related services the student needs. Mundo Verde PCS was flagged for noncompliance for not adhering to the required timeline for initial evaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q1 (July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q2 (October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2018 – 19 Q1 and Q2 (July 1, 2018 – December 30, 2018)
For comparison, across the last five years, Mundo Verde PCS performed better than
approximately 12.7% of LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 14
applicable reporting periods.
38 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2018 – 19
findings and SY 2019 – 20 findings are not yet due for correction.

Indeed that's quite awful. MV and BASIS are both doing a bad job, worse than most other charters!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school.

It's not that people want it to be the same. People want BASIS to follow the law. Is that so awful?

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.

It specifically says in the report that BASIS is worse than most.

See Appendix A, page 31 "Of the eight areas
OSSE monitors, BASIS DC PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during
the review period. DC PCSB compared this performance to other charter LEAs in DC and,
based on this comparison, determined the school had among the highest instances of
identified noncompliance in one area: Child Find Monitoring."

Page 33: "For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 17.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 13 applicable
reporting periods.60 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed findings in SY 2018 –
19 through SY 2020 – 21."

Page 33-34: "A reevaluation is used to determine whether a student with an identified disability still
has a disability. Schools must conduct a reevaluation for each student with a disability
once every three years. OSSE identified BASIS DC PCS for noncompliance for not
adhering to the required timeline for reevaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2016 – 17 May 2017 (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)
§ SY 2017 – 18 May 2018 (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 August 2018 (April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 May 2019 (October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q4 (SY 2018; April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2020 – 21 Q2 – Q3 (SY 2020; October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021)

For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 32.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in seven reporting periods out of the 15 applicable
reporting periods.62 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2016 – 17 through
SY 2019 – 20 findings. SY 2020 – 21 findings are not yet due for correction."


Come on, BASIS boosters. This is embarrassing. Better than 32.8% of charters? Hardly any kids with special needs should make it easier to get it right for the few they do have. But nope. Still having violations every year. They seem to have taken corrective action steps to get it together for their review, but really, this is not good. Crap services, people leave, ta-da it's a well-performing school! Yay BASIS!

They voilated the timelines for reevalutaion. That's why we should shut them down? You have NO idea if the services are crap or not.

Honey get a grip. Nobody's talking about shutting them down. It's why they should get a conditional continuance and have to do annual reporting. And they shouldn't get to open any more schools until they correctly operate the school they do have.

Yes, that is what is being said in this thread. But, yes, you are right. That's what was said at the hearing and what will happen, which is all good. Meanwhile, I don't think opening a new school is on their agenda anytime soon.