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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, some incorrect information above, BASIS is not entirely "local", and is not a "franchise".  It's not as though anybody just goes to the BASIS equivalent of "Hamburger U", signs up to get the supplies, and then opens their own McDonalds.  All BASIS schools are still centrally planned, managed and directed by the same folks, and BASIS DC has a number of staff that came from BASIS Arizona schools. [/quote]

Sorry, I use the term franchise loosely in reference to the centrally planned, managed and directed nature of the expansion. I didn't think anyone would take the term literally. I use the term "local" in the Tip O'Neil sense that, like politics, perhaps education ultimately is a local affair despite aforementioned central planning and management.  I say this because maybe not much can be learned by contrasting the Tucson experience with that of DC. My concern above all of these semantic quibbles, is simply that the central model, at its core, has in my view become perilously close to the Chinese model (as evidenced, for example, in the constant pushing of algebra down into lower levels. The elite 5th graders are taking Algebra I.) I have seen this evolution first hand over the last 5 years in Tucson and I feel it is a shame. That is all. And despite this, my child still is attending BASIS tucson because I believe that flaws notwithstanding, it still offers the best free education in Tucson (although unfortunately that is not saying a lot).[/quote]

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