BASIS: PCSB staff recommends conditional continuance due to SWD

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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.

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

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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.

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

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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.

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

Well, it's weird to me that the PCSB focused so hard on recruiting, when BASIS' compliance performance is also so poor. I'm not sure why they did that. But the compliance failures do indicate a poor quality of services. And if the services aren't good, that's going to be a recruitment and retention problem too (even if BASIS secretly considers it a feature not a bug). So they're not really different issues.

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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.

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

Well, it's weird to me that the PCSB focused so hard on recruiting, when BASIS' compliance performance is also so poor. I'm not sure why they did that. But the compliance failures do indicate a poor quality of services. And if the services aren't good, that's going to be a recruitment and retention problem too (even if BASIS secretly considers it a feature not a bug). So they're not really different issues.

Because, if you look at the report, they corrected whatever was reported. The only outstanding issue is enrollment (and timeliness is ongoing improvement.)

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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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

Well, it's weird to me that the PCSB focused so hard on recruiting, when BASIS' compliance performance is also so poor. I'm not sure why they did that. But the compliance failures do indicate a poor quality of services. And if the services aren't good, that's going to be a recruitment and retention problem too (even if BASIS secretly considers it a feature not a bug). So they're not really different issues.

Because, if you look at the report, they corrected whatever was reported. The only outstanding issue is enrollment (and timeliness is ongoing improvement.)

Okay, but being in the lowest performing tier of charters for years and years is the big picture here. Fail, correct, fail, correct, fail, correct-- eventually it's time to stop failing so much, no?

[Anonymous]

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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!

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar. The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students. I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before. Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama. Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.

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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.

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

Huh? This isn't a marketing issue. Basis is well known for being a bad place for most kids with SN - that is its reputation, not marketing. That's why they don't lottery for Basis, and probably also why many leave. I'm sure that there are some kids with IEPs doing well at Basis (because all kids are different, so for some, the supports and setting may be working.) But yeah, this goes much deeper than "marketing." I have had many service providers say "Not Basis!!" when discussing MS options. That's really not ok.

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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.

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!

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar. The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students. I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before. Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama. Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.

You're missing the whole part about Basis not enrolling enough SN students; as well as their well-established reputation for not supporting kids with IEPs.

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Okay, but being in the lowest performing tier of charters for years and years is the big picture here. Fail, correct, fail, correct, fail, correct-- eventually it's time to stop failing so much, no?

Trimming this thread.

But now you are goal-post moving here. This is a review for charter approval--that's the topic at hand and they have achieved success with a caveat about marketing. You may decide that their performance in SN doesn't meet your standards, but it meets the charter board's standards.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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!

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar. The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students. I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before. Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama. Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.

I don't care about the webinar, I just want BASIS to be in compliance no matter how they get there.

DC schools are among the worst, and schools like BASIS that claim to be performing well but are really just refusing to do the hard work are a big part of the problem. The DC school system would be improved if BASIS got its act together.

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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!

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar. The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students. I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before. Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama. Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.

You're missing the whole part about Basis not enrolling enough SN students; as well as their well-established reputation for not supporting kids with IEPs.

And BTW - the failure to meet unambiguous IDEA deadlines is actually a big deal. It indicates they are poorly organized and resourced, and don't really care to follow the rules, which is likely not limited to the deadlines. There's very little an individual parent can do about the school blowing deadlines, if they aren't going to due process, so the charter board's look at the statistics is pretty much the only remedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Okay, but being in the lowest performing tier of charters for years and years is the big picture here. Fail, correct, fail, correct, fail, correct-- eventually it's time to stop failing so much, no?

Trimming this thread.

But now you are goal-post moving here. This is a review for charter approval--that's the topic at hand and they have achieved success with a caveat about marketing. You may decide that their performance in SN doesn't meet your standards, but it meets the charter board's standards.

stop lying. it's not "a caveat about marketing." and the charter board's action (conditional approvale) shows serious concern that Basis is NOT meeting standards.

[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!

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.

It says right in the report that they were talking with the PCSB as recently as summer 2021 about opening an elementary school .

Missed that. But anyhow, that's fine. The things they have been asked to do are basically marketing and a plan to manage more kids. This isn't very hard to achieve.

The point I guess I am trying to make is that the complaints were not about the actual SN services, but only about attracting more SN kids. That's a VERY different issue than how they are actually managing the supports.

Huh? This isn't a marketing issue. Basis is well known for being a bad place for most kids with SN - that is its reputation, not marketing. That's why they don't lottery for Basis, and probably also why many leave. I'm sure that there are some kids with IEPs doing well at Basis (because all kids are different, so for some, the supports and setting may be working.) But yeah, this goes much deeper than "marketing." I have had many service providers say "Not Basis!!" when discussing MS options. That's really not ok.

That's not what the report found or asks of the school though. The caveat to the approval is that the school must 1) publicize its program to the community as inclusive for all
learners, and 2) target recruitment efforts for families of SWD.

[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!

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar. The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students. I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before. Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama. Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.

You're missing the whole part about Basis not enrolling enough SN students; as well as their well-established reputation for not supporting kids with IEPs.

And you are missing the part that Basis is 100% lottery, is the best charter academically in the city for both SPED and non-SPED, and DC schools are among the worst in the country.

Your attitude is one reason people take their tax dollars and move to Maryland and Virginia, leaving DC schools with even less money and worse off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Okay, but being in the lowest performing tier of charters for years and years is the big picture here. Fail, correct, fail, correct, fail, correct-- eventually it's time to stop failing so much, no?

Trimming this thread.

But now you are goal-post moving here. This is a review for charter approval--that's the topic at hand and they have achieved success with a caveat about marketing. You may decide that their performance in SN doesn't meet your standards, but it meets the charter board's standards.

stop lying. it's not "a caveat about marketing." and the charter board's action (conditional approvale) shows serious concern that Basis is NOT meeting standards.

If lying is repeating what's in the report, then my apologies.

Look, YOU may think its about all sorts of things, but the report concludes that the issues are about attracting and enrolling more SN kids.

In fact, it states "The school’s effectiveness in educating students with disabilities provides a compelling case for increasing special education enrollment rates at BASIS DC PCS."