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As far as comparing curriculums are concerned, you can request the information from the school and do your own research. We are looking at two different age-groups, elementary and middle/high school, so I really don't have much information to share and the things that I listed are NOT available in the PG county schools that I am zoned for, which is why I am asking about new charters.

There is a very limited pool of charter schools in PG county, unlike our neighbors across the border. I would not compare E.L Haynes, Yu Ying, LAMB, or some of the better charter schools with the lower performing charters in DC or PG County. As far as exmissions are concerned, do public schools in PG county offer this information? If they don't, why would you expect the current charters to have this information. [/quote]

I mentioned exmissions in my post within the context of private schools, a analogous situation in which parents also don't rely on test scores as a measure of the school.  Like I said I don't disagree that the things you posted are important.  A lot of those things also generally transition into better test scores, even if that is not the focus of the school.  So when you have all of those things present, and test scores are still lower than your neighborhood school (at least in my situation), I was wondering how parents determine to make the leap and figure out if there child will be better prepared academically.  On one hand you have a charter with a better environment, but fairly average sometimes lower test scores, how do you assess the academics?  It wasn't meant to be a contentious question.      [/quote]

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