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[quote=Anonymous]LEARN tries to explain their early low performance-- basically leadership instability and hiring unqualified teachers. Says things are improving with more teacher training and more structure. About 75% of families are military (down from 90%), more off-base families is a goal. Improved enrollment and re-enrollment. Financial improvement. Discussion of parent company finances.

Rocketship: They clearly know they're in trouble and are very conciliatory. Discussion of changes in leadership, and not implementing their model with fidelity and not intervening fast enough to low performance. More regional/national supervision. Offloading Appletree to save money. Marino: Your academic stats are low, growth and proficiency both, why? Rocketship: Inconsistent and misaligned leadership, being off model, need for tutoring and instructional coaching. Adamoh-Faniyan: Enrollment decline is huge, why? Answer is hard to understand, something about wellness and unstable leadership, new curriculum, attendance. OSSE improvement plan involves SPED compliance. Williams asks about enrollment as well, and truancy, calls out cycle of gaining then losing gains. Stanley Beatty: We have to evaluate your past performance, not just future potential. How are you cutting costs without impacting programming? By in-sourcing things, and some things are provided by parent org so not closely tied to per capita. Stanley Beatty: Your model calls for growth to 5,000 kids, how? We can run sustainable schools of various sizes. Yan: Skeptical of enrollment. We have lots of lottery applications. Marino: My concerns are so serious, and kids can't wait, so I'm moving for high stakes academic conditions and removing authorization for growth up to 8 campuses. Williams seconds. Clearly this was teed up in advance bc Crusey left a proxy. Unanimously passes. So excited to have some real conditions! Although I still think at least the Legacy campus should have been closed-- it's ridiculous to have egregiously low performance and then pass because of a slight uptick.

I'll finish recapping tomorrow (if I feel like it).[/quote]

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