Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 21:49     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
So I guess we can say a lot of DC schools are "year round" if we are counting summer programs..DCPS is year round
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 21:47     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/



It's mandatory. We were accepted at KIPP for prek4 and the mandatory summer school was one of the reasons we went elsewhere. If I recall correctly, they also have school for 1/2 days on Saturdays twice a month and that is also mandatory.


Case by case..at least in my case my child was "allowed" to not attend. Of course this is not something they tell parents.

But, I no longer have to deal with this as I pulled my child out of KIPP.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 20:01     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Many schools have a 4 week summer program, Bethune has one and Creative Minds.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 19:57     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Kipp was just in the news for having a padded "calm down" room. I don't believe it was a Kipp in this area but what's I've heard is that they are ran like a boot camp.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 19:53     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
at the expo the folks at Sela were saying they were going to have a 5 week summer program that I believe was free
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 19:42     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Anonymous wrote:Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/



It's mandatory. We were accepted at KIPP for prek4 and the mandatory summer school was one of the reasons we went elsewhere. If I recall correctly, they also have school for 1/2 days on Saturdays twice a month and that is also mandatory.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 19:31     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Well, I don't know how long KIPP's summer program is - but their website says "mandatory summer school" starts in July. Is the summer school mandatory for ALL students, or just some? If it's mandatory for everyone, it's effectively a year round school, as most year round schools have breaks of about 6 weeks in the summer.

http://www.kippdc.org/about/calendar/

Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:59     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Anonymous wrote:EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others


Um no. Kipp has a 4 week summer program.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:52     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
summer program is not a year round school. If you count that, then you might as well call DCPS a year round school system.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:51     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Appletree has a summer program and so does Stokes.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:27     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Anonymous wrote:EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others


really?
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:27     Subject: Re:List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
EL Haynes & KIPP - there may be others
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:18     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
I would find it very odd if there were truly 12-month public preschools.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 12:17     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
Haynes is. But it's not year-round in the way that I envisioned it--they start a couple of weeks earlier than DCPS and end at the same time, so it's really that they have some longer breaks than DCPS does in the fall and Spring.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2014 11:36     Subject: List of public and charter elementary/preschools that are year-round?
If anyone else has looked into this and has a list, could you share?
Or, is this info available on some charter/DCPS website?
TIA.