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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don't get additional money because they already were paid for students which weren't attending the school any longer.

If you are a net down after count day (which they are) you have still received money for children you aren't educating even if you replaced some of them.  [/quote]

You missed the point of my post.  BASIS is only down 26 students (or 6%) since count day, a fact which should have been obvious to the Post reporter, who worded his article so that it appeared that BASIS was down 43 students (or 10%) since count day.

If my business plan called for pushing kids out the door after count day to keep their funding, I certainly wouldn't invite 17 more to enroll in my school after count day.

BASIS tried hard to recruit students after count day and succeeded in attracting 17 new students, an accomplishment for which the school never receives credit.  It's unfair to suggest that BASIS is gaming the system.

It is the PCSB (or DC government) that establishes the procedures for funding charter schools.  The problem here is not BASIS, but the ridiculous method they've chosen.  There should be a count day every 5th of the month, and charters should receive monthly checks that reflect the enrollment on the most recent count day.
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