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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Because we should be fixing the schools that we already have, rather than undermining them with new openings.  [/quote]

What in the recent (~25 year) history of DCPS makes you think that they can magically "fix" these schools?

[quote=Anonymous] Because it is a waste of money to operate so many half-empty schools.  [/quote]

Then close the failing DCPS schools and redirect the funds to better support students. Propping up failing, under-enrolled schools is not a strategy.

[quote=Anonymous]  Because EOTR is already getting Bard and Latin II.  [/quote]

Hooray! It's about time Wards 7 & 8 get the top-performing schools they deserve. We should be celebrating this and celebrating KIPP taking Ferebee-Hope.[/quote]

[b]DCPS has improved significantly at the elementary and middle school level in the past 25 years and I believe those gains will filter up[/b], along with the one-star money and Connected Schols program.

DCPS cannot close Anacostia and Ballou unless the kids have somewhere to go.  Are the charters volunteering to take all those kids, all grades, all special needs, any day of the year?  I doubt it.  They would have a much harder time claiming to be "successful" if they had to do the work DCPS does.

[b]There are plenty of failing charters the PCSB could focus on improving, rather than letting them malinger for 5 years at a time and then disrupting all the kids with closure. [/b] [/quote]

DCPS is improving... slowly. KIPP would provide a quality high school in a year or two not in 25 years.

The PCSB is not the central office for charters. They can determine which schools open and close. They can set conditions but they don’t improve schools. Very few staffers at the PCSB have even run schools - whether traditional or charter. Their role is to hold schools accountable for meeting goals. 
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