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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like PCSB has swing wildly in the past couple of years from approving/re-approving charters that meet bare minimum standards to reauthorizing most schools but imposing somewhat extreme conditions (looking at Appletree and Cap City, for example). It would be great if there was room for something in between.[/quote]

Having so many schools on conditions is kicking the can down the road and avoiding the hard part of the job. Of course, the PCSB also feels free to ignore their own rules, make excuses, give extensions, call it "substantially met", basically do what they wanna do. So we have a lot of crappy schools. Yaaaaaay "flexibility" yaaaaay "innovation" yaaaay "reform".[/quote]

Crappy schools or crappy authorizer? It's a bit chicken and egg. If the authorizer was better, would the schools be better? I actually believe that most charters are fine but the really crappy ones are being left to continue limping along until they just implode on their own.

The 700 kids that lost their school didn't lose their school because the PCSB closed them -- despite knowing the crap-level financial and academic issues. Nor did they close in time for parents to get those kids their best shot by getting into the lottery. That's pretty crap-tastic authorizing and oversight.[/quote]

Oh it's definitely a chicken and egg. But I think if the PCSB applied its own standards consistently, rather than passing the low performers along with extensions and discretion, the whole system would function better. [/quote]

I think you don't understand what the words you use mean. If the rules allow for discretion and/or substantially met is part of the rubric then they don't violate their rules by using discretion and grading substantially met. [/quote]

I know it's within the rules technically. But I didn't say "rules", I said "standards". When schools go on for 10 or more years without a solid pass, I think that's beyond the spirit and intention of the rules and misuse of discretion.[/quote]

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