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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, in DC they are nonprofits, not private companies. Some contract with a management company to provide some services but I think BASIS is the only one like that that is popular on DCUM. The others are strictly  nonprofits.[/quote]

OK, charters are private non-profit companies that run public schools (even Basis here is non-profit as that's DC law).

The sometimes shady arrangements with for profit management companies is another aspect, but they are all non-public companies.  The point is that the public no longer owns them once a charter school does.[/quote]

Since you don't even know anything about how charter schools are owned/operated.  Maybe you should just talk about something else?[/quote]

Seriously.  The public certainly has less control over what happens to the buildings, and that is by design, to give the schools flexibility and shield them from bureaucracy and the political winds of the day.  But in the long run the public still has fundamental control over the buildings- either through the ground leases that currently the way DGS disposes of the property, or through the more roundabout way that had to be done with CAPCS.  There, because the land was owned by the charter (DC used to actually sell the property to the charters, they don't do that anymore), threatening to take away the charter itself, and thus the only way to pay debt, was a strong enough stick to get CAPCS to essentially give itself up and let its constituent schools be taken over.

Oh, and those old schools which were sold to developers and rehabbed as condos and apartments?  The public really has no control over those.[/quote]

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