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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are not a comprehensive recap, just things I thought were of interest.

Jim Sandman calls out the process for occuring too late to be helpful during the lottery. Answer is no because data comes in too late. Hope to get onto an earlier schedule in a future year. But there is lots of other info available now.

Staff member states that there are some schools with academic and/or financial concerns and that they expect to issue review conditions to some schools to improve or risk revocation, and in some cases to recommend initiating revocation.

[b]Dwight Davis asks what recourse a parent has when their school is not answering their tough questions. Walker-Davis encourages people to reach out to PCSB. [/b]

Meeting was over at 7:37. I'm surprised it was so short, given what a lengthy and troubled slate of schools they have to review this year.[/quote]

I'm not sure that this information is easily found by parents. I follow the PCSB closely and if it hadn't been for this thread, I would not have recognized that such an important financial list was part of the proceedings. I suppose they only have a public discussion when the school is put on a formal corrective action plan but not when they get added to the monitoring list?[/quote]

Yes, I was extremely underwhelmed by that answer as well. Parents can tell of financial trouble in the FAR, which is also something a lot of people wouldn't know to look at. And the schools make (or, are supposed to make) their budgets public. Putting the monitoring list more visibly in the minutes is one of the changes they've made after the embarrassing failure of Eagle Academy. And I can't help but notice the monitoring list is longer than it used to be.

SO many charter schools are way behind or flagrantly noncompliant in posting their board minutes. Enforcement of that rule is non-existent, and it's really sad because it's one of the first places a parent would think to look.[/quote]

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