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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you may not know that back in 2011, when BASIS got permission to open a DC campus, the franchise was able to negotiate a special deal with DCPCB and the City Council to open DC's first public middle school without social promotion.  At every other DC public middle school, 6th an 7th grade students who fail to meet academic standards to work at grade level have been free to advance to the next grade since the 1980s.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the BASIS franchise could negotiate a new deal to arrange for 9th graders to test in, like they do in AZ and elsewhere.  Problem is, the franchise has been hassled so much politically in DC from the start that they're pretty clearly not going to bother to try to negotiate new terms.  They haven't sought permission to open a second or third campus in the District, as they've done in several of the states where they established a foothold around the same time BASIS DC opened.[/quote]

They did seek to expand to lower grades, but were unsuccessful.[/quote]

They didn't try too hard.  They have bigger fish to fry out West and in Texas.[/quote]

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