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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Addendum to 12:08

The PCSB WILL intervene, or at least publicly scold schools at the time of charter review and renewal/renewal with conditions. Not sure when SSMA is next up for review.

The only other thing for parents to do is leave. Student retention is now tracked in the STAR reports put out by OSSE. Last year it was 83%; just about at the DC average. [/quote]

Ten-year review is in school year 2020-2021.  So not for a while.[/quote]

Here is what is covered in a 10-year review. https://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/report/SY%202018-19%20Charter%20Review%20FAQs.pdf[/quote]

SSMA adopted the PMF for its goals. The PCSB will review whether the school is meeting goals, is legally compliant and is fiscally sound. Parent satisfaction and complaints alone aren't going to cause the PCSB to intervene unless dissatisfaction is so severe that it impacts the school meeting its goals, being legally compliant and being fiscally sound. The PCSB can certainly ask questions publicly during the review and maybe that will encourage the SSMA board to take parent concerns much more seriously.[/quote]

Mild reprimands to "take parent concerns more seriously" are not going to have any effect. Other schools have also had this occur. To have things get so bad that parents are begging PCSB to do something, there needs to be a problem that won't respond to this kind of obscure non-threat.

Aside from leaving, which is always tough because you have to get in somewhere else first, and there will always be others to fill your spot, the only real way out is the media. I would suggest parents come together and work their networks, write detailed data oriented letters to local press and WaPo. The board members can be called out by name as well. They will be given a chance to respond but hopefully the details of the evidence will make them look bad in the press.
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