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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 
One school is still going. The other was never started. In 2009, she was a co-founder and original head of school of National Collegiate in SE, which is an IB school. She was a co-founder with the present Head of School. The IB certification for the school mentions her prior experience and her PhD: Assistant Headmaster and Director of Operations and Student Affairs at New Mission High School in Boston, MA, ten years experience as a middle and high school teacher in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C, Ed.M and Ed.D in Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Here's the link:

https://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/report/National%20Collegiate%20Prep%20PCS%20-%20Charter%20Review%20Appendix.compressed.pdf

The second DC PCS was Washington Day School PCS. It was supposed to be a K-8 schhol. And it had a final charter application in 2012 but was never approved. It also has the same bio details including her PhD.

Here's the link:

http://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/241812526-1-Washington-Day-School-Application-Copy.pdf

So SSMA is the 4th Charter School she has worked for, including the one in Boston, Mew Mission.

She clearly has a lot of experience in education. But a lot of it is as a researcher and consultant (including as a charter school consultant). From what I can tell she has never worked in a school with pre-school or elementary kids. The sense I get is that she feels comfortable in an established bureacracy. But her lack of organization, poor interpersonal skills and aloofness make running a new school for younger kids a lot more challenging. Just my opinion[/quote]

She was forced out of National Collegiate for using some of the same bullying there that she uses at Shining Stars after staff turnover. If you do some research on National Collegiate, you won't see her name anywhere after the first year.  There's a reason for that.

See this NPR story from June 2009 when she and the other co-founder of National Collegiate were excited to start the school https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105461716

Basically, she got the school up and running and that was it. When she tried to run it, it was a disaster there too. She clashed with everyone and she was forced out and her co-founder took over as ED. If the Shining Stars board weren't captive, they would do the same thing too.
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Huh. That is really sad. [/quote]

The schhol may be Tier 2 but it is doing pretty well https://www.wsbradio.com/news/national/school-entire-senior-class-attend-college/QN4NSIiJPqmlOPm3uPGVXO/[/quote]

Sorry but that has nothing to do with her. She left that school years ago. What's more, the school she says she helped found in Boston was failing under her leadership. That's what this article about the school says

http://www.nationalblueribbonschools.com/summarydocs/2013/ma/new-mission-high-school-13ma1.html

It says: "In 2006, New Mission looked nothing like it does today. The school was performing below the district average in nearly all-academic areas." That's when Shining Stars' ED was the assistant principal there. So it's not clear to me at all she knows how to run a school successfully - and particularly not an elementary Montessori school.

I've been hearing a lot of stories about her now that this is out in the open -- like for example that she has cameras installed in all the classrooms and monitors the tapes at night to see what's going on. Why not just visit the classrooms? Very creepy. [/quote]

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