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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I, for one, would be perfectly happy if they lost their charter and converted to private. Two students there and it would be a stretch, but worth it to keep the school going.

And it would be such a relief to not have to read these crabs-in-a-barrel comments from anti-charter people who want everything to be the SAME, even if the "SAME" is pretty horrible.

For the record, DCPS does a pretty horrible job with SPED - yes they have programming but the students don't learn much once you get past elementary school. [/quote]

It's not that people want it to be the same.  People want BASIS to follow the law.  Is that so awful?[/quote]

They ARE following the law.

Read the report before you comment further.  You are just embarrassing yourself.[/quote]

Then why are there so many violations listed in the report?[/quote]

Have you read any of the the reports on other DCPS and DCPSC? They ALL have violations of many types.[/quote]

It specifically says in the report that BASIS is worse than most.

See Appendix A, page 31 "Of the eight areas
OSSE monitors, BASIS DC PCS was required to take corrective action in four areas during
the review period. DC PCSB compared this performance to other charter LEAs in DC and,
based on this comparison, determined the school had among the highest instances of
identified noncompliance in one area: Child Find Monitoring."

Page 33: "For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 17.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in four reporting periods out of the 13 applicable
reporting periods.60 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed findings in SY 2018 –
19 through SY 2020 – 21."

Page 33-34: "A reevaluation is used to determine whether a student with an identified disability still
has a disability. Schools must conduct a reevaluation for each student with a disability
once every three years. OSSE identified BASIS DC PCS for noncompliance for not
adhering to the required timeline for reevaluation during the following school years:
§ SY 2016 – 17 May 2017 (October 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)
§ SY 2017 – 18 May 2018 (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 August 2018 (April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
§ SY 2018 – 19 May 2019 (October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q4 (SY 2018; April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
§ SY 2019 – 20 Q3 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020)
§ SY 2020 – 21 Q2 – Q3 (SY 2020; October 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021)

For comparison, across the last five years, BASIS DC PCS performed better than 32.8% of
charter LEAs, receiving a finding in seven reporting periods out of the 15 applicable
reporting periods.62 OSSE confirms that the school has addressed SY 2016 – 17 through
SY 2019 – 20 findings. SY 2020 – 21 findings are not yet due for correction."

Come on, BASIS boosters.  This is embarrassing.  Better than 32.8% of charters?  Hardly any kids with special needs should make it easier to get it right for the few they do have.  But nope.  Still having violations every year.  They seem to have taken corrective action steps to get it together for their review, but really, this is not good.  Crap services, people leave, ta-da it's a well-performing school!  Yay BASIS![/quote]

Let’s take your biggest violation by Basis: “Child Find.”

“Child Find is a set of policies, procedures, and public awareness activities designed to locate, identify, and evaluate students who may require special education and related services.” (p. 35)

As the report notes, Basis (like many other DC  charters, some of which are failing) was flagged for this violation before and took corrective action including requiring staff participating in a webinar.  The violation was deemed corrected.

Great, so Basis needs to require its already overworked teachers to take another webinar on SPED students.  I am sure that they will do that, and everyone will move on, just like they did before.  Yay, PP!

DC schools are among the worst in the country, rivaling Mississippi and Alabama.  Yet you are hung up on SPED webinars.[/quote]

You're missing the whole part about Basis not enrolling enough SN students; as well as their well-established reputation for not supporting kids with IEPs. [/quote]

And you are missing the part that Basis is 100% lottery, is the best charter academically in the city for both SPED and non-SPED, and DC schools are among the worst in the country.

Your attitude is one reason people take their tax dollars and move to Maryland and Virginia, leaving DC schools with even less money and worse off.[/quote]

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