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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is BASIS DC's dirty little secret. They don't pay [/b]or offer good enough working conditions to attract and retain qualified teachers across the board, particularly at the middle school level. They burn teachers out - all those after-school office hours.  It's particularly hard for BASIS to find teachers with experience teaching both ms and serious STEM subjects (full years of physics, chem, bio not normally taught at the ms level). What often happens is that they often hire either hs STEM teachers who don't last long teaching sciences at the ms level or hire ms teachers with weak subject backgrounds. This is why parents have started pushing for better teacher pay and started lobbying for hiring input. A group of at least 90 concerned parents formed and organized during SY 2022-2023. They send a group to each BASIS board meeting.[/quote]

Tell me you aren't a BASIS parent without telling me. Were you one you'd know they are matching DCPS now. But go on, tell us more![/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I will say that "Matching DCPS" when you only hire the youngest and least qualified teachers still isn't a very good salary. And DCPS' Impact rating system, even though the teachers hate it, is capable of delivering pretty sizeable bonuses, plus a bump for working in Title I schools. Is BASIS matching that?

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/page_content/attachments/WTU%20FY20-FY23.pdf[/quote]

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