Reply to Which schools accept after count day?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Which schools accept after count day?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funding only follows the child (after the count) if a child goes from a public charter to DCPS. Conversely, if a child comes to a charter after the count from DCPS the funds remain with DCPS.[/quote]

I don't think the first part is true even a little bit.  It's the same both ways.[/quote]

That's my understanding as well. [/quote]

I think people are confused about the exact funding process.  DCPS makes estimates at the beginning of the year and gets funding based on that- and there is no "true up" after that to match the exact funding to the final student count.  Charters do the same thing- send an estimate of their count in July, and the first quarterly payment is based on that estimate.  But then once the official count is complete, the remaining quarterly payments are "trued up" so that the final total annual amount will match the official count number.
[/quote]

This article explains the process about 1/3 of the way down.  It's three years old, but still the process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-schools-fight-second-class-status/2012/08/21/b98961ce-bc1f-11e1-9134-f33232e6dafa_story.html[/quote]

Per the DC Code, unless I'm reading it wrong, there is a "true up" - but only to the official count number (the verification of the October 5th count).  So if verification is done October 20th, and the charter gets 10 more students after that - there's no funding adjustment for that (the article incorrectly indicates funding increases if enrollment increases throughout the year).  The final quarterly payment to a charter ensures that the the total annual amount across all 4 payments matches the verification number (from late October it seems, as that's when the audit is done).  I'm not sure what happens when someone gets added between Oct 5 and October 20 (using that as verification day for example) - other than the school wouldn't receive payment for that student until April, and thus is sort of out funding for the kid for the year.  Seems the school would get money eventually, but too many kids and that could add up to a lot of missing funding (5 preK-3ers is 60k+ I think - that's a whole staff member).  But the implication of count/verification day are real...[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics