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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very sad. Eagle should have faced consequences much earlier to give families time to plan and make alternate arrangements. As it stands, the families have 48 hours to find a new school. Some are reporting that they've called many schools and none have space for their children.

Parents on twitter - https://x.com/NickMinock/status/1826299238893912315?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

WJLA story - https://wjla.com/news/local/charter-school-dc-scrambling-eagle-academy-public-board-rejected-plan-merge-friendship-congress-heights-campuses-southeast-capitol-riverfront-southwest-parents-children-reachtions-schools-rush-academic-year-crisis#
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This is on the charter school board.  This should have been finalized in May or June so parents had time to find care or a new school for their kids.  PK3 and 4 is tough to find spots, and some parents dont want to drive all over the city if they can find a spot.  I just find this whole situation infuriating.[/quote]

It's also a scramble for the neighborhood schools that Eagle's K-3 students are in bounds for.[b] Over 10 K students unexpectedly enrolled at our DCPS just this week.[/b] I don't know enough to say how that's really impacting anything beyond class sizes, but seems likely to be logistically and financially tough on admin and teachers. But I guess that's not the charter board's problem ...[/quote]

In 2022-23 there were only five DCPS schools that had even 20 kids from their boundary attending an Eagle campus (Hendley, Simon, Malcolm X, Turner, and Van Ness), and that covered 6 grades (PK3-3). So it seems unlikely that 10 Eagle kindergartners had in-bound rights at any DCPS school. I am not doubting that a DCPS school had 10 kindergartners enroll this week, but they probably weren't all from Eagle. [/quote]

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