DC will spend $100 million renovating a single school, even if it only has a few hundred students, but only if it's DCPS. Sorry charters! A sampling of the cost recent school renovations. Notice a pattern?

Duke Ellington -- $180 million
Coolidge -- $160 million
Jackson-Reid -- $130 million
Dunbar -- $125 million
Roosevelt -- $125 million
Woodson -- $100 million
Tubman -- $100 million
Deal -- $100 million
JO Wilson -- $91 million
Cardozo -- $90 million
Deal -- $90 million
Ballou -- $90 million
Jefferson -- $90 million
Burrville -- $85 million
Truesdell -- $80 million
Oyster Adams -- $79 million
Burroughs -- $75 million
Janney -- $70 million
MLK -- $65 million
Dorothy Height -- $63 million
Garfield -- $60.5 million
Anacostia -- $60 million

Anonymous wrote:The way the city discriminates against charter school kids is pretty shameful, and also probably illegal.

It’s probably not illegal. If it were, the legions of charter parents who are lawyers would have sued by now.

The way the city discriminates against charter school kids is pretty shameful, and also probably illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Charter schools are money sucks away from DCPS schools and it continues cycles of low quality community schools. The fact that they are not regulated the same as DCPS schools and receive dc funding is insane.

Hahaha. No, the DC council and DCPS would rather spend hundreds of millions on shiny new buildings than actually take on the teachers unions or try to raise abysmally low academic outcomes. Charters have been the only thing making DCPS compete at least a little bit on performance.

Oh…that’s why you love charters. You hate it when teachers advocate for themselves. You are so pathetic.

You know teachers are the ones advocating for higher standards in DCPS right? Have you even ever been to a council meeting…

No, charters don’t cause DCPS to compete, the surrounding districts do. Most charter schools are also trash. Just like DCPS middle and high schools there are few options.

Anonymous wrote:Charter schools are money sucks away from DCPS schools and it continues cycles of low quality community schools. The fact that they are not regulated the same as DCPS schools and receive dc funding is insane.

Hahaha. No, the DC council and DCPS would rather spend hundreds of millions on shiny new buildings than actually take on the teachers unions or try to raise abysmally low academic outcomes. Charters have been the only thing making DCPS compete at least a little bit on performance.

Charter teachers don’t have to be licensed nor do they have Early Stages. If they send zero children back to DCPS and have the same rules then I’ll consider supporting.

Charter schools are money sucks away from DCPS schools and it continues cycles of low quality community schools. The fact that they are not regulated the same as DCPS schools and receive dc funding is insane.

If the math is the same as when they were asking for Early Stages money when they don’t provide Early Stages services (along with other creative accounting), I’m tempted to actually send a letter in support of the current proposal. Happy to change my mind if there’s updated documentation to review, but that isn’t provided here.

Let’s make sure every charter school has to accept kids off their waitlist all year and cannot send disruptive kids back to their IB school - like DCPS schools.

Let's shut down some charters and distribute the money to all other public schools per capita.

You'll be most persuasive if you argue about how much $ are needed for kids and education, and that the charter amount (and maybe dcps amount) is insufficient.

When the complaint is just about a perceived relative difference -- "they get more than we do!" -- it sounds whiny. Is this about need or just pique?

Anonymous wrote:In DC’s proposed budget for FY27—thanks to lame-duck Mayor Muriel Bowser—charter schools in DC would get $2000 less per student than DCPS schools. This is completely unfair and unjustified. We need to send strong a message to the DC Council that DC should not discriminate against charter students, teachers, staff, and families.

Everyone needs to show up to the DC Council’s legislative meeting this Tuesday, June 2 at the Wilson Building, Room 500 (1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW) to protest this unfairness. Be there from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm and be heard!

And reach out to your DC Council member about this issue!

More like $500. I’ll be there to ensure that the actual data is heard.

Perhaps write the members of Congress that are on the committee with DC oversight.

Explain again the economic value of the loans and loan guarantees the city offers to charter schools.

In DC’s proposed budget for FY27—thanks to lame-duck Mayor Muriel Bowser—charter schools in DC would get $2000 less per student than DCPS schools. This is completely unfair and unjustified. We need to send strong a message to the DC Council that DC should not discriminate against charter students, teachers, staff, and families.

Everyone needs to show up to the DC Council’s legislative meeting this Tuesday, June 2 at the Wilson Building, Room 500 (1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW) to protest this unfairness. Be there from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm and be heard!

And reach out to your DC Council member about this issue!