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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  I did review the documents and quickly saw that you are spreading false information.  Basis “ is primarily a commercial real estate investment firm”?  Shame on you.  You are clearly a troll.

Here is the latest reporting from the Arizon Republic (which, BTW, doesn’t cover charter schools in DC):

[b]This Arizona high school landed the top spot in national U.S. News ranking[/b]

A charter school in Peoria landed the top spot in a new ranking of the best public high schools across the nation.

BASIS Peoria was ranked first in the nation on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best public high schools, rising from 12th place in last year's ranking.

Twelve Arizona high schools in all were included in the top 100 spots of the ranking.

They included 10 schools in the BASIS charter school network — Peoria (first), Oro Valley (24th), Scottsdale (32nd), Tucson (33rd), Ahwatukee (34th), Phoenix (45th), Mesa (56th), Prescott (75th), Chandler (84th) and Flagstaff (94th) — and two district schools: University High School in the Tucson Unified School District (81st) and University High School in the Tolleson Union High School District (83rd).

BASIS Peoria and BASIS Oro Valley were among the top five charter schools in the country, and BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler were among the top five STEM high schools, according to the rankings.

The 2024 rankings, which were released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 18,000 public schools across the country.

U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top schools in the metro Phoenix area. The top ten included six BASIS schools and University High School in Tolleson, along with Arizona College Prep in the Chandler Unified School District, Gilbert Classical Academy in the Gilbert Unified School District and Phoenix Union Bioscience in the Phoenix Union High School District.[/quote]

That is an article abotu US news and world report rankings... it's not anything I would point to as serious.

But does it refute any of the earlier reporting?

And did you check the 990? How much debt DOES BASIS have?[/quote]

Trolling.

Take off your tin foil hat and quote and cite the reporting.  No one has any idea what you are taking about.  [/quote]

IF you send your kid there and you don't know how the school operates you're seriously in trouble.

Go look up the 990 of BASIS and see how much debt they have. Go ahead, I'll wait.[/quote]

OK and I now see that you are full of cr*p.

You can find the last 990 filed with PCSB for BASIS DC here:  https://dcpcsb.org/school-990s.

According to that document, net assets/fund balances are around $5.5 million.

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Interesting to look at the latest 990s filed with PCSB.

If you compare BASIS to KIPP, which runs 18 substandard charters in DC, you can see that BASIS gets a tiny percentage of DC education money compared compared to KIPP.

1) BASIS has the best test scores in DC.  BASIS DC had revenue of $13 million and spent $12 million, leaving $1 million.

The [i]best[/i] KIPP charter in DC is KIPP DC College Prep, where more than 3/4 of the students are below grade level in English and almost no one is grade level in math or science.  KIPP had revenue of $214 million (an average of around $12 million per school) and spent $219 million, leaving a deficit of more than $5 million.

So, with 6% of the revenue of KIPP, BASIS DC had much better results across the board and didn't spend more than they brought in.

And then we have this:  https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/late-hyattsville-mayor-kevin-ward-accused-of-stealing-2-2m-from-kipp-dc-schools/3145415/

Yet some people oppose BASIS opening a charter elementary school in DC and want to create more KIPP-like charters here.

Absolutely insane.

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