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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too bad that Latin never negotiated a charter with DCPCSB that permits them to hold students who don't work at grade level back, forcing them to repeat a year to stay in the program.  The BASIS franchise did that before opening back in 2015.  It is what is is.  [/quote]

All charters can hold back kids who don't meet the their grade level standards. [/quote]

In theory, but this very seldom happens. In its first few years of operation, BASIS DC would hold back around 10-15% of its middle school students.

I attended one of the Charter Board hearings about the BASIS "grade retention" proposal deal a decade ago, before BASIS' charter was approved.  I remember that it was a tense, heated affair.  Several of the Charter Board members were openly hostile to the franchise's insistence that kids who failed a comp in just one subject in 6th, 7th or 8th grades could be held back a grade.  They expressed concern that poor minority kid would be singled out for grade retention.  What BASIS was proposing was pretty clearly new in DC, where near universal social promotion before high school had been the norm in DCPS since the 1970s.[/quote]

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