Anonymous
04/10/2025 21:18
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote: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.
Interesting that Hope Tolson charter school also matched zero and offered zero seats. Perhaps they are also relinquishing. Their data was worse than I Dream and their review hearing was horrendous. They are the lowest performing elementary middle in DC. The OSSE report card puts them at the zeroth percentile for performance.
Yes, I was astonished they made it through the hearing. PCSB's oversight is so weak, they will give any number of extensions to prop up a school that is in a clear spiral of failure.
However, the way that data looks, I wonder if maybe it's been zeroed out or they weren't allowed to have matches. Because for a school that's trying to stay alive and maintain enrollment, how does offering zero seats make any sense? I didn't download the data set initially but maybe someone else has it.
Anonymous
04/10/2025 20:40
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.
Interesting that Hope Tolson charter school also matched zero and offered zero seats. Perhaps they are also relinquishing. Their data was worse than I Dream and their review hearing was horrendous. They are the lowest performing elementary middle in DC. The OSSE report card puts them at the zeroth percentile for performance.
Anonymous
04/09/2025 10:01
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Stay critical. The PCSB didn’t shut them down. The PCSB literally told them that they could go to next year and they wouldn’t run the performance calculations to see if they met goals until AFTER the lottery next year at which time the school would have to relinquish or be revoked. Meanwhile OSSE releases its report card scores in late November/early December. The charter school decided they wouldn’t put their families or staff through that. It was simply a happy accident that the school made the decision a day before lottery matches were released. That one day gave My School DC the opportunity to re-run the matches.
It should have happened a month earlier. Current families are learning about this too late to enter the lottery.
Agree with this. DCPCSB should either decide to shut down schools before the lottery deadline so current families have a chance to apply elsewhere, or keep them open another year with support to better serve the students. What happened with I Dream was better than with Eagle, but it's still a failure.
+1000 In both cases, it wasn't even a DCPCSB decision for closure. The school's decided. Even though all of the data was there and available for the DCPCSB. These schools that are in trouble need to be pushed to make the best (even if hard) decision for their families. It's unfortunate that the push isn't coming from the agency that should be providing oversight.
Anonymous
04/09/2025 09:56
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At the end of the PCSB meeting on YouTube it says the school opted to close after a pre-review data meeting with PCSB.
Good for the school for doing what they could to protect the families from even more upheaval.
Wouldn’t have been the school’s fault they’re in this situation in the first place?!?
Probably true but plenty of people/organizations are at fault for something and then never do anything to deal with the fallout. This one did.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 19:39
Subject: Re:PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Does the charter board keep data on schools they keep open with low enrollment and finance issues? Is there data to support that these schools can actually turn the corner and become successful? If the answer is no, or rarely, which is what I suspect, then they need to use that data to close schools sooner.
https://dcpcsb.org/financial-analysis-reports
If you look in this, there's information about each school. They do sometimes pull out of financial issues. Often times the issue is too expensive a building and if they downsize that brings them back onto an appropriate budget.
That is an annual report, but there is also a running list here: https://dcpcsb.egnyte.com/dl/9uzDk8PaUP/Financial_Monitoring_List.pdf_
Anonymous
04/08/2025 19:35
Subject: Re:PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Does the charter board keep data on schools they keep open with low enrollment and finance issues? Is there data to support that these schools can actually turn the corner and become successful? If the answer is no, or rarely, which is what I suspect, then they need to use that data to close schools sooner.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 18:45
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Stay critical. The PCSB didn’t shut them down. The PCSB literally told them that they could go to next year and they wouldn’t run the performance calculations to see if they met goals until AFTER the lottery next year at which time the school would have to relinquish or be revoked. Meanwhile OSSE releases its report card scores in late November/early December. The charter school decided they wouldn’t put their families or staff through that. It was simply a happy accident that the school made the decision a day before lottery matches were released. That one day gave My School DC the opportunity to re-run the matches.
It should have happened a month earlier. Current families are learning about this too late to enter the lottery.
Agree with this. DCPCSB should either decide to shut down schools before the lottery deadline so current families have a chance to apply elsewhere, or keep them open another year with support to better serve the students. What happened with I Dream was better than with Eagle, but it's still a failure.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 17:58
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Stay critical. The PCSB didn’t shut them down. The PCSB literally told them that they could go to next year and they wouldn’t run the performance calculations to see if they met goals until AFTER the lottery next year at which time the school would have to relinquish or be revoked. Meanwhile OSSE releases its report card scores in late November/early December. The charter school decided they wouldn’t put their families or staff through that. It was simply a happy accident that the school made the decision a day before lottery matches were released. That one day gave My School DC the opportunity to re-run the matches.
It should have happened a month earlier. Current families are learning about this too late to enter the lottery.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 17:27
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At the end of the PCSB meeting on YouTube it says the school opted to close after a pre-review data meeting with PCSB.
Good for the school for doing what they could to protect the families from even more upheaval.
Wouldn’t have been the school’s fault they’re in this situation in the first place?!?
Anonymous
04/08/2025 17:19
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote: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.
Stay critical. The PCSB didn’t shut them down. The PCSB literally told them that they could go to next year and they wouldn’t run the performance calculations to see if they met goals until AFTER the lottery next year at which time the school would have to relinquish or be revoked. Meanwhile OSSE releases its report card scores in late November/early December. The charter school decided they wouldn’t put their families or staff through that. It was simply a happy accident that the school made the decision a day before lottery matches were released. That one day gave My School DC the opportunity to re-run the matches.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 14:02
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:At the end of the PCSB meeting on YouTube it says the school opted to close after a pre-review data meeting with PCSB.
Good for the school for doing what they could to protect the families from even more upheaval.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 13:02
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
At the end of the PCSB meeting on YouTube it says the school opted to close after a pre-review data meeting with PCSB.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 12:50
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
You can see from the data that 27 students across all grades were still on their waitlist on match day, which means they didn't match elsewhere.
Nope. It means there are 27 kids who ranked it higher than where they matched, not that they "didn't match elsewhere".
Anonymous
04/08/2025 11:38
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote: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
You can see from the data that 27 students across all grades were still on their waitlist on match day, which means they didn't match elsewhere.
Anonymous
04/08/2025 11:34
Subject: PCSB Monday meeting agenda is up
Anonymous wrote: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.
I don't think that is what happened. They allowed it to exist through the lottery and they were planning to review it at the April 7 meeting. If they did a behind the scenes shutdown, that's a lack of transparency and a violating of their own rules. If the school really did voluntarily shut down because the PCSB forced them to see their dire circumstances, that's more okay.