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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, they do sometimes sort out their problems. Sometimes by closing a campus that is struggling if they have multiple campuses. Sometimes by moving to a smaller, cheaper space. The real solution is to address whatever's causing the enrollment decline, but that's hard too. Sometimes replacing the leadership works, but it's hard to find an effective leader who wants to take on a failing school. They get into a downward spiral of enrollment causing budget cuts which makes the school less appealing, further depressing enrollment.

I do think, and hope, that after the embarrassing debacle of Eagle Academy, that the PCSB may be more interventionist. They know they have egg on their face.[/quote]

True. For the few that did sort it out, those were different times in terms of enrollment. Hope is an example, they off-loaded one campus a few years ago because of declining enrollment and high facility costs which initially helped them be much more solvent. Now they are down to only one campus but the struggle continues in terms of academics and facility costs. Chavez too closed locations and seems to have come back stronger. The concern for schools today though seems different because part of what's driving enrollment declines now are lower birth rates and shifting demographics. Some are saying there are simply too many schools. If what's causing the enrollment decline is lower birth rates or too few available students, schools (or the PCSB) have to be realistic and absolutely "interventionist". This is obviously one of the jobs of the PCSB but all of these charter school board members have a responsibility too. [/quote]

A big part of the problem is people making over-optimistic real estate choices and doing real estate transactions without enough background in the field IMO.

And yes, declining enrollment, but also things like DCPS opening MacArthur, Wells Middle doing okay, some DCPS elementaries being better than they were, and stronger charters opening or replicating such as Latin, is definitely culling the herd of poorly managed schools. Definitely a situation of when the tide goes out...[/quote]

It is clear there aren’t enough students for all of these schools.  For various reasons.  Time to close some and consolidate resources.  As someone unthread pointed out, it isn’t good for a school to cut so many costs that they are unable to fairly support their students.[/quote]

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