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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, BASIS DC isn’t allowed to backfill. The Arizona BASIS schools do backfill. They also administer a placement test at every grade, and have no qualms about making your child repeat several grades if necessary, whether your kid enters in kindergarten or 11th grade.[/quote]

Why would it not be allowed?[/quote]

Because the BASIS network requires that, if you backfill, you must administer a placement test at every grade & have kids repeat however many grades the testing seems necessary. Regardless of the grade the student is attempting to enter.

Do you really think that would fly around here? [/quote]

So you're saying that BASIS headquarters is *choosing* not to allow BASIS DC to backfill in a way that DC charter governance will allow. BASIS headquarters could make an exception to their rule, and they're choosing not to. [/quote]

BASIS is [b]a charter school.[/b] It can basically do what it wants. If you don't like it, go to your local in-boundary DCPS school. Nobody is forcing you to go to BASIS. [/quote]

Taking public dollars. [/quote]

Yes, it’s a public charter school. That fight was over 20 years ago. If you want to ban public charter schools in DC, you have to ban all of them.

Meanwhile, charters were supposed to provide competition that would make DCPS better. Still waiting 20 years for that.[/quote]

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