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[quote=Anonymous]OK, we have smart people here, even some with experience in education, charters, startups, business, etc.

I want to know how you budget out a school that meets the "Deal" requirements - differentiation (no need to call it honors, tracking, etc.); extracurriculars, and the rest --- before you ever get the student body to meet that objective.

And how do you change over a school that's existing - not picking on any at all, just going with broadly-expressed sentiment - to lay out that set of course offerings?

I feel like we need to move on from broad sentiments in the WP articles and broad postings here to real nitty-gritty stuff. Is 6th grade Algebra necessary for six students? Or could you do a pull-out just for math? Can you build an advancing cohort of students that takes only one advanced class, e.g., math or humanities, and the rest along with everyone else? Could you build advanced options into extended day schools simply by having them at the end of the normal day for another hour with a rotating specialist?

I intend to ignore the ladies here who just say "no" or "end poverty" "just advertise better," or broad, easy shouted-out troll answers... I'm looking for things like, "you need 2 social studies offerings in 7th grade but only one PE teacher" or "cut an assistant principal and fund a remedial English/ELL teacher so that at least one ELA teacher can reliably teach on grade level for each grade." Maybe stuff like "partner with extracurricular NGO types like DC Scores who can get more sports teams into your school" or "limiting PE staffing doesn't help."

Do the charters DCPS is competing with have public staffing models, for example? Somebody has to know what the BASIS math offerings in 6/7/8 are, for example.

I for one am not going to go with the goofy "not good as" biases of Hardy vs Deal or Jefferson vs. Kelly Miller or whatever if I know at a concrete level that if my student can keep his eyes forward he won't end up treading water academically, individually. (I care if the other students pass, but I don't believe being below basic is a disease my son can catch.) So I intend to judge a school by its offerings, and I believe that if they are there, THAT's meeting the promise of 'Deal for all.'

Thanks guys, I appreciate your knowledge.[/quote]

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