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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The charter board's longstanding obsession with [b]meeting the needs of under-served populations,[/b] a local variant of tunnel vision, is on display yet again in this video.

What's wrong with mainly serving high SES families whose in-boundary schools are train wrecks, along with anybody else who cares to lottery in, at BASIS DC from K to 12th grades?  Why not cater to well-heeled tax payers in a bid to keep more of their income and property tax dollars in the city, along with anybody else who cares to lottery in?

There aren't even 20 public schools in the city with enough white kids to pull them out by subgroup on PARCC testing, yet the charter board is fussing about the percentage of FARMs students at BASIS. There are already more than enough public schools catering to the poor in this city. Give poor kids a chance to rise with the high SES tide at a new BASIS elementary school. It's a no brainer.  Fingers crossed for a vote for expansion in Dec.  [/quote]

Except the bolded part is the stated reason that charters were started, and the express mission of the PCSB.

The bigger problem for BASIS is its crappy record on students with disabilities most of whom have not had particularly complex needs, not students who qualify for FARMS. One of the BASIS reps last night (not from the DC school) seemed to think the school deserved a medal for its commitment ot students with disabilities because they now have a psychologist, a full time special ed coordinator and a couple learning specialists at the middle school. [/quote]

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