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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think BASIS should just be an application school. Some kind of entrance exam and if you pass it, you can lottery for it. But then require them to backfill when kids leave. Then they can keep their standards but it functions as a real option for kids prepared for academic rigor who want that kind of school.

Really the only issue I have with it is that they don't backfill. I don't have a problem with a school with that approach and with strict requirements for advancing. It's not what I want for my kids but I get some people do. DC needs more good options for MS and above. That means a school that doesn't backfill is a drag on the system because they are releasing students when there are already so few spots at rigorous schools, but there are absolutely kids past 5th grade who could succeed at BASIS if given the chance.[/quote]

DC code 38–1802.06 - criteria for admission to charter schools cannot include measures of achievement or aptitude. This idea would require a change to the law.

With respect to backfilling, if BASIS were to backfill they'd have to have smaller 5th grade classes to accommodate backfilled classes in higher grades due to space constraints. Unclear to me whether or not that would actually be a preferred approach.[/quote]

They obviously should change the law, or develop DCPS advanced programming with test-based admission.  You can't backfill BASIS as things are now because (in addition to possible space issues mentioned above), while there absolutely are lots of students in DC who could handle BASIS coming in late, there are also lots who can't, and random selection precludes the school from weeding the latter out, and letting them in in the later grades would substantially degrade the experience. [/quote]

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