Good.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

What better way to make crappy charters look better than to strip the public school of basic needs?

The charters receive those funds too. So it will be a race to the bottom.

Anonymous wrote:The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

What better way to make crappy charters look better than to strip the public school of basic needs?

Anonymous wrote:BASIS is a nonprofit network...

No it isn't. The individual schools may be nonprofits (the Basis DC one is) but they return 10-20% of budgets to the Basis.ed CMO which is for profit. The BasisbDC board pays less than some of the others because the local board negotiated a lower management fee.

BASIS is a nonprofit network...

Funny but these charter school companies are all expanded overseas just like failing US restaurant chains.

Not if you don't sign your kids up. Plenty of charters don't take off , if enough people at suspicious.

Anonymous wrote:I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

How much did you donate to the teachers' fund?

Anonymous wrote:I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

How much did you donate to the teachers' fund?

The Trump draft Ed Depart budget slashes funding for lots of things DCPS relies on to support at-risk kids (e.g. low-cost before/after care). I think that's the bigger risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.322c4ca53767

I'll take BASIS. You can have my neighborhood school.

I find it bizarre that for-profit "universities" are pretty much universally derided and scoffed at (U. of Phoenix, Strayer, TRUMP University!) as worthless, low-rent, yielding degress that you shouldn't want to have on your resume but that's the kind of thing DeVoss wants to use for American children during primary school?

No better place to bring this future than DC! Tied to all the research that parents/families end up self-sorting when given choice, this sounds like the perfect way to re-segregate our schools (this time by ability, not race!)

https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/charter-schools-and-voucher-schools-are-virtually-identical/