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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the poster who suggested the (maybe) 25 slots will keep adding up in coming years, have you actually read the charter, and factored that into your assumptions?  I doubt you have - because their approved charter is for a total of up to 400 students 5th through 8th - it DOES NOT specify a maximum number of slots for any particular grade.  They can simply add more 5th and 6th grade slots in coming cycles, to aim for populating that approved 400 total for grades 5-8. So OF COURSE they can make up their numbers in coming years, within scope of the approved charter language.

I suspect the only reason they didn't add more 5th grade slots this year is because they already had their resources, staffing and structure set up for the current number of 5th grade students - and that it wasn't that big of a crisis for them to have a few slots go unfilled.  It's ultimately just a one-year 6% variance for that grade 5-8 approved allotment.

So no, it's not ongoing, and it's most definitely not the end of the world.[/quote]

5th through 8th?  When we don't accept kids after 6th, and now have 10th graders?  Reread the Charter please, and consider the fact that they made a $250k mistake this year, are they going to now make a different assumption and screw it up next year?  It [b]was a big deal, and fixing it is a big deal[/b] and the solution you are positing will not work - I don't think.

But why don't you ask at the coffee?  The numbers have to be even in terms of Elements, because having a stray 13 kids in any grade is economically inefficient.  So the real question is what is the model in Arizona?  It certainly cannot be to expand in this hodgepodge manner.

They are only allowed to offer a certain number of slots based on what they see before them.  They have to do that before they can predict how many kids will be retained in 6th, etc.  I do not think they can count on 25 kids who committed not showing up for 5th or 6th.

So I do not think what you are proposing is the way they handle things at other schools, or that it is permitted.

But we still don't know what went wrong, so why don't we figure out the problem before proposing ridiculous solutions.

But post a link to the copy of the charter and let's see whether we can figure this out together.[/quote]

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