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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher attrition at charters, especially dual language charters, has been REALLY bad this year. I think it's always been an issue when you need teachers with an extra skill set, but it's particularly bad now.

Pay at charters like Mundo is not good enough. This is a game the charters played to establish themselves: spend money on administration, marketing, and facilities, cheap out on teachers, assume it will work in the end. It doesn't! And it's not like these schools have amazing facilities either. So really they are spending all of their money (taxpayer money!) on administration and marketing themselves to PK parents. It is a house of cards and it's no wonder it's falling apart. There are a bunch of schools in DC in this bind. Not every charter (some are better run than others, some pay teachers more or allocate money better) but a number of them.

I feel compelled to also state that DCPS also sucks in a variety of ways, but teacher quality and making sure classrooms are staffed with teachers is generally not one of them. DCPS pays teachers very well and it helps them retain very high quality teachers even when other aspects of the district are a huge PITA.[/quote]

I agree with a lot of what you said but please don’t say DCPS is appropriately staffed. So many parents aren’t getting their special Ed services because dcps cannot hire people. [/quote]

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