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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If PCSB had a response, it is not on the original page.

And I think most people would say we are a far ways from coordination when the charter reps walk out of the boundary planning advisory group in the last week.
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they walked out because they refused to accept the "Whatever % OOB at risk requirement" for schools that have no boundaries, where admission is by lottery, where starting with the common lottery and the help of social workers at risk kids can apply, where many charters have FARMS populations that are much higher than the Ward 3 Elementary schools and the other ES EOTP schools that are being gentrified, under circumstances where, while there are specific charters that cater to at risk kids, not all of them do, and they do not get the per pupil money that DCPS does to provide wrap around services. We have SEEDS, ROOTS, KIPP, DC PREP etc - and then we have schools offering to teach kids a trade, like Hospitality High (I wish we could start more of them), schools that offer language immersion, STEM opportunities............ To me that was completely understandable.  Had they done anything else it would have destroyed our charter school, which is already Title I.

I also hate the idea, espoused by some political candidates,  of in boundary preferences for charters, when charters spend so much time moving around the first few years, and when they ultimately land and are impossible to get in to, suddenly wherever they end up, the students who, by coincidence, happen to live in those areas.

The whole point of the lottery is EQUAL opportunity.  Everyone gets the same shot when a new school opens, except for the teachers who come to teach, and, in the case of a home grown charter, the founders who put their sweat equity in.  Then those who came in the beginning get sibling preferences, without which, the system absolutely would not function.

But stirring the pot is right.  Good for the Charter Board for nipping this in the bud.  And good for them as well for their recent crackdowns - it is becoming harder and harder to get permission to open a charter in DC, and to expand.  What  they want at this point is quality, not quantity - in what we have, and in what we will get.  Even chains like Harmony have to come back multiple years.  I like that.  There are no free passes in DC anymore.  We have enough to clean up with the charters that exist.  But I would say we are probably doing just as well as DCPS in terms of functioning schools and corruption.........

We would not still be in this city if it were not for charter schools.  Our plan was always to move to Md for MS and HS.

Can anyone post a link that works to the original diatribe? [/quote]

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