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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think the issue of retention and enrollment numbers is a big deal for any charter school that offers immersion language for French, Hebrew, and Chinese.

Either due to the mass third grade exodus to private and suburban schools, or due to the common movement of families in and out of D.C., children leave these schools at later grades. I do not think it is that easy to find First through Six graders at a fluency level in French, Hebrew. and Chinese to replace any that have left, also, what is the funding for half a class going to look like?

(http://dcimmersion.org/language-immersion-programs-in-the-us-and-in-dc/immersion-schools-in-dc/)[/quote]

What does this have to do with residency?

The DC Public Charter Board does not permit kids who are fluent in target languages to replace those who have left charter immersion schools. This means that empty charter spots are left empty after the school's cut-off entry year (somewhere between PreK4 in Lamb's case, and second grade).

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It's connection with residency is that for funding, it is desirable to keep the MD/VA third graders who are proficient in these rarer languages (French, Hebrew. and Chinese), then boot them out after they have moved to MD. Otherwise, there would be a third grade class of Hebrew with 14 DC students and 10 of them gone to MD/VA. Funding of 1 full-time teacher for 14 kids may not add up.[/quote]

This form of cheating happens rarely. There are only a handful of Chinese-speaking kids of the 400 YY students, and one or two Hebrew speakers at Sela. Even Stokes has very few French-speaking kids, mostly Haitian immigrants.

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So what happens when kids move out of these language programs? If there is a third grade class of 20 French students and 5 move away or enroll in private school, can 5 students without any exposure to French fill those spaces for the fourth grade?[/quote]

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