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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These changes, as proposed, will significantly limit charter opportunities to expand and will also disadvantage those charters that accept students at all grade levels - if LAMB can basically stop accepting kids at PK4, they have a lot more control of the PARCC scores of their cohort of 3rd graders than does a school that accepts students in 4th or 6th or 8th grade. It seems like bad policy to reward schools that only accept kids in early childhood grades.

One of the driving forces around charter school expansion is available real estate - lots of schools apply to expand based on real estate costs or because the location that becomes available to them can hold more/fewer schools than they planned to serve (see: Mundo Verde, Creative Minds). I'm sure there are creative solutions to address this (maybe more co-locating charters and/or charters with DCPS schools with available space?), but it won't be easy.[/quote]

This change seems to address the problem you raise. Currently a school must have a location secured when it applies for an enrollment ceiling increase. Under the new policy they could get the ECI, and then go find one.

" Schools may apply for and receive an enrollment ceiling increase prior to securing a facility. ECIs are now timebound and the school must secure a facility and begin enrolling students within 24 months of the Board’s vote."[/quote]

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