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[quote=Anonymous]It looks like the PCSB is voting on new charter applications at Monday's meeting.  The most promising on the list looks like "One World" MS which may be something like Sidwell's response to Cathedral Schools/Latin.  (For those who didn't know, Martha Cutts who is the head of school at Washington Latin formerly was head of school at NCS.)  They plan to open on 16th St. NW, about a block south of Latin's current upper school campus.

Their demographic analysis looks a little incomplete from this vantage point:

[i]"The feeder elementary schools will be: Latin American Montessori Bilingual, Potomac Lighthouse PCS, Two Rivers PCS, Inspired Teaching PCS, Yu Ling, and Washington Latin. Based on the Demographic Analysis Form included in Appendix C, the 16th Street NW corridor has only one middle school performing at the Tier One level –Washington Latin PCS, which is in high demand." [/i]

On the one hand they imagine Washington Latin to be a feeder school, but then turn around and state that Latin is the only high quality MS in their target neighborhood.  Also, LAMB and Yu Ying seem highly unlikely as feeder schools, since they're opening their own MS/HS offering the IB Diploma.  However, they're probably correct that Two Rivers and Inspired Teaching will fill a number of their spots.  Creative Minds and Bridges might flow in well, after they grow up to 5th.  Also, they haven't accounted for the students on the Hill with no decent MS in their feeder pattern, so that will supply some students, as will some of the Ward 2/Ward 3 DCPSs that do not feed Deal.

It's encouraging to see that they're apparently serious about both high standards and high ethics, which is something of a problem area for Basis (enough so to have the PCSB reject their application to expand).

http://dcpubliccharter.com/data/files/2013_Applications/One-World-PCS-Application_342013.pdf[/quote]

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