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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any insight on the SSMA additional provisions?  Did the school agree to them?[/quote]

I don't recall hearing anything about the process or if an agreement is needed for that, but I might have missed it. The only way I can do these long hearings is to listen to them on chipmunk speed. It seems like SSMA has to agree to whatever is put in front of it, because their performance is so poor that PCSB would have the right to shut it down (I think-- hard to say in this crazy time of incomplete performance analysis).[/quote]

I don't understand how the process works here -- there seems to be a startling lack of transparency and due process. The conditions call for Shining Stars doubling proficiency to reach a higher percentile or they will close. I don't have a problem with the rigor of the condition -- the school needs to do better obviously -- but putting the condition into the consent agenda with no public discussion? No public interrogation of the school that they can meet the conditions and their plans to do so?  Not having these conditions examined publicly means that parents choosing this school (and the broader public) have little chance to consider if they want to be part of this.

Also, the PCSB can vote at one meeting that there will be continuance/renewal/probation etc with conditions and then set any conditions they want with a future consent agenda item? Consent agendas should be for routine, non-controversial, and procedural items. This is anything but that.[/quote]

Yeah, I don't know the answers to your questions. Honestly the PCSB makes it up as they go along, which is how SSMA got a probation concept here in the first place. [/quote]

EXACTLY. The 15-year renewal is supposed to be an up or down vote to renew the charter or not. In the past, PCSB has asserted that conditions are only possible during the 5-year charter reviews. It is maddening from a process perspective. [/quote]

Basically they do whatever they think is best, and backfill whatever rationale seems to make the most sense.

I'll do a thread soon on all schools that have conditions. Because it might seem like a good idea to avoid closing now, but really it just sets up ticking time bombs for a lot of closures in the future.[/quote]

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