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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The materials for tonight's meeting is here.  BASIS isn't looking too good when it comes to attracting and retaining students with disabilities, middle school re-enrollment, and some of the academic performance metrics of certain subgroups.  SPED/IDEA compliance is also an issue.

Is anyone even slightly surprised by this?

https://www.livebinders.com/b/2891815

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Au contraire.  These are really impressive results for a school that is only a decade old.  Maybe PCSB should be looking to replicate these results with other charters?

[b]“BASIS DC PCS earned high ratings on the PMF throughout the review period. In SY 2018 –19, the LEA’s high school program earned a 97.7% on the PMF; this is the highest score any school has achieved since DC PCSB began producing the PMF.  That same year, the LEA’s middle school program had the highest proficiency rates in English language arts among all PK – 8 DC public charter schools.”[/b]

“The QSR [Qualitative Site Review] team observed strong evidence that BASIS DC PCS’s academic program is achieving its mission. Teachers provided academically rigorous instruction to middle and high school students. In all classes, students worked on sophisticated and challenging content. ... In the instruction domain, observers noted high-quality instruction and academically rigorous content across subjects and grade levels. Teachers engaged students in challenging work   in a variety of ways, asking them to complete complex math problems, work as groups to analyze historical events, and discuss characters in a high-quality, complex text.”[/quote]

You're missing the point, dear.  That "success" comes from having far fewer students with special needs and disabilities.[/quote]

No, hon, you are missing the point.

One in four DC adults struggles with basic reading, and one in three adults in DC cannot do basic math.  The D.C. illiteracy rate about 20 percent higher than the national average.

Let's fix our broken educational system in DC.

That will benefit everyone, including students with special needs and disabilities.[/quote]

Fixing the broken educational system means not calling schools successful when actually they're failing and avoiding students with disabilities.[/quote]

Wrong.

Here is what the report says:

"While the school’s special education enrollment rates are comparatively low, BASIS DC PCS’s students with disabilities outperform their peers across the charter sector in academic growth and proficiency"[/quote]

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