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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Please just allow me to repeat the only intelligent and intelligible contribution to this conversation:

NP here, and not a Basis parent so I'm not invested in your outcome here. You people ignore the frustrated parent above at your own peril. The UPSFF (per-pupil funding formula) indicates that your school lost out on about a quarter of a million dollars by not filling those 25 seats. And that's just THIS YEAR. You can't back-fill them, so now your loss is compounded to $250K per year for that class all the way through HS. Wow - somebody should be fired for that kind of fiscal malpractice. DCI just opened, doesn't have their permanent facility, and is already eating your lunch. You need to get on the ball and address your problems, quickly. Shutting down and/or berating the one person who is actually trying to force the school and its sycophants to face the music will be your downfall. 
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Re-read the previous post that you are attempting to respond to, but failing to respond to.  They don't have a target number of 7th graders or 8th graders that they need to hit in order to avoid losing money.  They do that with 5th and 6th grade classes, and the only number that matters is the funded TOTAL within their charter, it doesn't matter what grade.  They are used to attrition, that is factored into their model.  It *DOES NOT* compound, they ADD SLOTS IN 5th and 6th.  So, to insist they can't make it up suggests a fundamental lack of understanding on your part in how BASIS is structured.

That *IS* how it works.  The only reason anyone is "shutting down" the argument is because you have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the school works.  [/quote]

This is how most charters operate.  They recalculate and plan for available slots each and every year, based on the prior year.  This is not rocket science.  It is not at all "intelligent and intelligble" for the PP to think, let alone insist that a school wouldn't modify and update the number of available slots to hit it's fullest approved total, because this is precisely what they do every single year.[/quote]

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