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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in a school that didn't understand this, and the principal kept enrolling past the October 5 count day. They didn't get paid for those students. Unless BASIS has a different rule, it's odd that they were still advertising spots after count day. [/quote]

Doesn't seem odd to me for this particular charter: Basis probably planned (and got private funding) for a certain number of students.  They may have fallen short of that enrollment target in the upper grade population.  I'm guessing DC's paltry per-student payments arent't the only enrollment driver for Basis.  [/quote]

I was wondering whether kids had left in the last couple of weeks (or were expected to leave) so BASIS needed to additional kids to make up numbers. I've heard from my DS that he knows of some children who have stopped coming to school.[/quote]

It's possible that some kids have left already, PP.  However, BASIS is not accepting students merely to make up for their departure.

BASIS divides each grade up into groups of twenty-something (don't know the exact number) kids per per section, which BASIS calls "elements".  The spots they are making available are to fill the elements that already exist.  They are willing to take kids after count day, even though they won't be paid for them, because it doesn't cost that much more to add kids to existing elements. They are already paying for the teachers, classrooms, desks, etc.  The marginal cost of few more kids per section is not very much, e.g., textbooks, extra office hours, etc.

Furthermore, those kids who join now might well remain for the next six years, during which time BASIS will be paid for them.  It might be harder recruit the same kids after they're a year behind rather than just a month.[/quote]

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