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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way I read this is that DC PCSB recommended that BASIS to do a phased enrollment increase (so only adding a few grades a year), not just filling all the extra grades at once. However, BASIS can't afford the I ST building if they don't fill it completely from the start. Someone at the meeting probably asked if they could just move the high school over instead, but that was rejected because they have debt on the current building and the market value is probably awful right now (hello all those empty DC office spaces). So, I doin't read into this that they are planning to move the high school - sounds like BASIS is stuck with that office building they started with. [/quote]

+1. Phased enrollment increase is a good idea. BASIS basically took 10 years to figure out how to work its middle school model in DC, and still haven't figured out how to do its high school properly. Why should anyone believe that it would know how to elementary school immediately?[/quote]

Because they currently operate 20+ of them. Or was that rhetorical?[/quote]

No, it wasn't rhetorical. If you've noticed, [b]BASIS has had a tough time acclimating its charter AZ model in DC[/b], primarily because the student landscape in the DC and the DMV area is very different from AZ. 
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Actually, they really haven't. The "acclimation" of which you speak was the high attrition when BASIS first started and then asked for expansion. PCSB had concerns about the attrition and a bunch of people argued that somehow DC was different than everywhere lese they operated. As if kids here couldn't learn? If you look at BASIS's response during that time they explained that attrition was high at all of their new schools at first because families didn't know what it was and selected it out of desperation. There was a disconnect between what the school was and what was good for some of those kids. BASIS said then that based on prior experience in other jurisdictions the attrition would settle out. Guess what...they were right.

No doubt DC is challenging due the presence of performative nonsense, SJW and people who think equity means lowering standards. But the model works here. Our facilities are not as nice (they suck) but that's not about the model.

But by all means, since you purport to know so very much about the BASIS model, tell us about how it hasn't worked here.[/quote]

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