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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have worked at a charter school (in another city).  I find in general that they are not well run from the business side of things.  Often times the head of school has no knowledge of the true financials behind a school and I find they don’t always get the best financial planners for COO or business manager.  It is a flawed system.  DCPS is propped up for central office and the city government so principals aren’t paying mortgages or rents or able to spend more money than they have.[/quote]

DCPS may be better managed (though many posts on this board suggest there is significant variability in management across all kinds of schools - DCPS and charter). The bigger benefit, IMO, is that when there is overspending like 80 million dollar school renovations that cost over 100 million, it doesn’t affect DCPSs viability. There’s a charter board that established rules like how much days cash charters should have at a minimum among other financial targets. Supposedly these rules are in place to ensure good financial management and, hopefully, to protect students and families and school staff from the fallout from bad management. If the PCSB isn’t even doing a basic level of oversight on finances then the “bad management” problem is much bigger than any single charter school. [/quote]

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