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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]When will people realize you can't control public charter school enrollment by address. What part of "public" in public charter is so hard to grasp? [/quote]

Um, there's the word "public" in "public schools," and these are all controlled by address. [b]It's not like it's written in the Bible or something that charter schools have to be District-wide. [/b]This is something that leaders chose once upon a time, and it can be changed.

Also, I get the sense that Vincent Gray is interested in expanding charter schools across the city to address specific performance issues at DCPS. For places that are poorly served by DCPS and where parents are worried about their ability to get in someplace good via lottery, it would make sense to give preference to the students whose local, in-bounds DCPS options are weak. [/quote]

Bible, no. DC charter law from 1996, yes. The only way a charter school can give [u]address[/u] preference is for it to be a conversion of a DCPS. (The first charter school in the city was a DCPS conversion.)

Not to be a downer, but parents should have realistic expectations of what charters can and cannot do. There seems to be a perception that somehow BASIS will be flooded with applicants from Hardy boundary or already proficient and advanced students. While that could happen in theory, witness YY 10% FARMs, it would have to be a result of a low number of applicants. Given the waitlists at existing charters and Deal, a lottery is pretty much a given for BASIS.

I'm not sure if BASIS pursued the option of conversion. But there sure are some DCPS schools that could use a fresh start.

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§ 38-1802.06. Student admission, enrollment, and withdrawal.

(a) Open enrollment. -- [b]Enrollment in a public charter school shall be open to 
all students who are residents of the District of Columbia [/b]and, if space is 
available, to nonresident students who meet the tuition requirement in 
subsection (e) of this section. 
(b) Criteria for admission. -- A public charter school may not limit 
enrollment on the basis of a student's race, color, religion, national origin, 
language spoken, intellectual or athletic ability, [b]measures of achievement or 
aptitude, or status as a student with special needs[/b]. A public charter school 
may limit enrollment to specific grade levels. 
(c) Random selection. -- If there are more applications to enroll in a public 
charter school from students who are residents of the District of Columbia than 
there are spaces available, students shall be admitted using a random selection 
process, except that a preference in admission may be given to an applicant who 
is a sibling of a student already attending or selected for admission to the 
public charter school in which the applicant is seeking enrollment. 
(d[b])(1) Admission to an existing school. -- A District of Columbia public 
school that has been approved to be converted to a charter school under § 38- 
1802.01 shall give priority in enrollment to: 
(A) Students enrolled in the school at the time the petition is granted; 
(B) The siblings of students described in subparagraph (A) of this 
paragraph; and 
(C) Students who reside within the attendance boundaries, if any, in which 
the school is located. 
(2) A private or independent school that has been approved to be converted to 
a charter school under § 38-1802.01 may give priority in enrollment to the 
persons described in paragraph (1)(A) and (1)(B) of this subsection for a 
period of 5 years, beginning on the date its petition is approved. [/b]
(e) Nonresident students. -- Nonresident students shall pay tuition to attend 
a public charter school at the applicable rate established for District of 
Columbia public schools administered by the Board of Education for the type of 
program in which the student is enrolled. 
(f) Student withdrawal. -- A student may withdraw from a public charter school 
at any time and, if otherwise eligible, enroll in a District of Columbia public 
school administered by the Board of Education. 
(g) Expulsion and suspension. -- The principal of a public charter school may 
expel or suspend a student from the school based on criteria set forth in the 
charter granted to the school.

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