Anonymous
Post 04/08/2025 11:28     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dream doesn't seem to be on the myschooldc website anymore. Did anyone match to it for next year? what happens for those kids and the current students?


https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Literally nobody matched.

They are supposed to help the kids find other schools, there's a whole shutdown process.


My School DC may have zeroed out their matches by zeroing out the number of seats offered. There are zero lottery seats for I Dream for this year. In past years, they offered up to 25 seats and had some matches. I think this is a best approach -- to zero out seats and matches -- for those families who applied to I Dream. Of course, this only works when schools close before lottery matches are made. It also doesn't help families already enrolled in a closing school if those families hadn't entered the lottery.

The week that I Dream relinquished, schools got a notification that there was a "change in LEA offerings" so My School DC was re-running lottery results.


I am a frequent critic of the PCSB but if they got it shut down before the lottery they are to be commended. About time they took actions before it screwed parents.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2025 07:33     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dream doesn't seem to be on the myschooldc website anymore. Did anyone match to it for next year? what happens for those kids and the current students?


https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Literally nobody matched.

They are supposed to help the kids find other schools, there's a whole shutdown process.


My School DC may have zeroed out their matches by zeroing out the number of seats offered. There are zero lottery seats for I Dream for this year. In past years, they offered up to 25 seats and had some matches. I think this is a best approach -- to zero out seats and matches -- for those families who applied to I Dream. Of course, this only works when schools close before lottery matches are made. It also doesn't help families already enrolled in a closing school if those families hadn't entered the lottery.

The week that I Dream relinquished, schools got a notification that there was a "change in LEA offerings" so My School DC was re-running lottery results.


Oh maybe that's what happened. So hopefully they might have matched elsewhere or at least had good numbers somewhere
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2025 02:12     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dream doesn't seem to be on the myschooldc website anymore. Did anyone match to it for next year? what happens for those kids and the current students?


https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Literally nobody matched.

They are supposed to help the kids find other schools, there's a whole shutdown process.


My School DC may have zeroed out their matches by zeroing out the number of seats offered. There are zero lottery seats for I Dream for this year. In past years, they offered up to 25 seats and had some matches. I think this is a best approach -- to zero out seats and matches -- for those families who applied to I Dream. Of course, this only works when schools close before lottery matches are made. It also doesn't help families already enrolled in a closing school if those families hadn't entered the lottery.

The week that I Dream relinquished, schools got a notification that there was a "change in LEA offerings" so My School DC was re-running lottery results.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:56     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:I dream doesn't seem to be on the myschooldc website anymore. Did anyone match to it for next year? what happens for those kids and the current students?


https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Literally nobody matched.

They are supposed to help the kids find other schools, there's a whole shutdown process.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:53     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
I dream doesn't seem to be on the myschooldc website anymore. Did anyone match to it for next year? what happens for those kids and the current students?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:13     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Board book is up.

Conditional continuance for Capital Village and they seem to have improved their occupancy cost going forward. But bad re-enrollment and bad academic performance remain. And enrollment drop and matching only 11 total students in the lottery, for all grades.

Continuance for Washington Global.

Acknowledging the closure of I Dream with some truly horrifying performance data.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 13:28     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My niece goes to one of these schools and she got sent to osse for missing eight days of school with covid. mom will send her next time


No one is "sent to osse." What does that even mean?

Schools don't want you to come when sick. But they do need a note to excuse each day.


Not the poster. It means she was included on the list of truant kids that is reported to OSSE. For most schools, OSSE is pulling this data directly from the school's student information system. Truancy is for unexcused absences though. There must have been no timely documentation for the reason school was missed for the student to be on the truancy list (no parent or doctor's note provided within five days).
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 13:07     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:My niece goes to one of these schools and she got sent to osse for missing eight days of school with covid. mom will send her next time


No one is "sent to osse." What does that even mean?

Schools don't want you to come when sick. But they do need a note to excuse each day.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 13:05     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Capital Village and Social Justice School matched virtually no one in the lottery-- time to shut these schools down so the kids have some months to find a place.


Social Justice matched a lot more than Capital Village. If Capital Village is threatened and Hope Charter too, there could be a lot more after lottery applications for middle school seats in Ward 5 that Social Justice could absorb. The student populations of Capital Village and Social Justice are very similar.

Absolutely agree however, that if schools are struggling like this, the PCSB has to be more proactive much earlier so that kids can find a place. If they let schools re-open and they don't have enough enrollees to survive, there'll just be another late collapse.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 09:00     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Capital Village and Social Justice School matched virtually no one in the lottery-- time to shut these schools down so the kids have some months to find a place.


I guess kids don't care about social justice anymore.


Both schools opened right at the start of the COVID pandemic. Rough waters from the start
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 08:48     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Capital Village and Social Justice School matched virtually no one in the lottery-- time to shut these schools down so the kids have some months to find a place.


I guess kids don't care about social justice anymore.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2025 00:02     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Capital Village and Social Justice School matched virtually no one in the lottery-- time to shut these schools down so the kids have some months to find a place.
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2025 23:14     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
My niece goes to one of these schools and she got sent to osse for missing eight days of school with covid. mom will send her next time
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2025 23:09     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
What is a “truancy notice of concern”? Is this the first batch of them — in other words are these the charter schools with the worst truancy problems or did other charter schools already get these notices this school year?
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2025 12:53     Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
https://dcpcsb.org/board-meeting-april-2025

Truancy Notices of Concern:
Center City NoMa
Digital Pioneers Johenning
Girls Global
Children's Guild
Sojourner Truth

Reviews:
Capital Village (may not survive)
Washington Global

Relinquishment: I Dream