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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like they should close some of these charters over the next few years, particularly if the academics are also weak.

I’m not familiar with the review process for charters. Are there things that trigger a review (enrollment, test scores) or does it just happen on a schedule? What is considered in a review?

I know there was a school that collapsed at the last minute last year, but I thought that was NOT at the request of the review board. When was the last time a PCS was required to close because it failed its review?

Seems to me that the worst case scenario is a school closing either during the school year or after the lottery for the next year when they matched kids. You really want schools to announce they are closing prior to March so that people can lottery with that knowledge. Particularly with falling enrollments, the review board should be willing to force schools to close with plenty of notice for families rather than allowing them to fail with short notice. [/quote]

There is a schedule of reviews every 5 years (a supposedly tougher "renewal" every 15 years). https://dcpcsb.org/charter-reviews-and-renewals Failing schools tend to be given three more years to either pull it together or collapse. There are academics and financial criteria. The PCSB can also review a school at any time, when it has serious problems of basically any kind. And they can do behind the scenes stuff like calling in the school's board for meetings, telling them very clearly that they're in serious trouble, and imposing a Financial Corrective Action Plan.

They already changed the review schedule so that failing schools are reviewed in the wintertime, pre-lottery. And they've been making troubled schools notify their families that the school is on a PIP.

But the bottom line is the PCSB is really, really reluctant to close schools because they don't want to be the bad guy, and they'd rather watch a disorderly closure play out and wash their hands of it.[/quote]

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