OP, what difference does it make at this stage? I'll be curious to see who stays stays more than 1 year. It's still puzzling they didn't have a waitlist from all the hype and Mary Siddall's evangelizing. It'll be interesting to see if the BASIS bus stop in Palisades is still around if DC CAS results aren't stellar in 2014.

It's entirely possible there's double and triple counting in the reports above. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who left a desirable school to go there. It would be interesting to see which, if any, of the ward 7 & 8 tier 1 charter schools are losing kids to BASIS.

Key school

In most European countries, a majority of schools are publicly funded, but in the better-performing countries, parents are typically free to choose the schools their children will attend, and as such, the funding follows the students, as opposed to automatically being allocated to schools. Effectively, the schools have to compete for students in order to sustain funding.

Not only Warren Buffet (which I didn't know) but Finland also goes by that plan. Nearly every school in the country is public and they have managed to steadily move up the rankings world wide.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

Anonymous wrote:Amy Carter was absolutely miserable at her school. Politicians should do what is best for their children. Last I heard, Obama wasn't running the DCPS.

Not that it matters all that much, PP, but please provide citations to sources documenting Amy's misery, PP. Be sure that the evidence supports your position that Amy's misery was due to attending a DCPS school, rather than simply, say, being a middle schooler or daughter of the president.

Politicians should align the interests of their children and the interests of their country. What's best for their children should be what's best for their country as well.

Last I heard, Obama appointed Arne Duncan secretary of education. Last I heard, the DC budget and all legislation is subject to congressional approval. Last I heard, democrats control the senate. If the President wanted to run DCPS and the DCPCSB, he could.

According to Harry Truman, passing the buck stops at the White House.

Warren Buffet speaks the truth. If we made private education illegal and assigned every child to a public school by lottery, the public education problem in this country would be solved quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the Obama's were considering pulling their daughters from Sidwell.

Quite frankly, the Obama's should send their girls to public school.

Politicians and public officials should be forced to avail themselves of the services they manage -- education, medicine, transportation, etc. The caliber of those services would then improve dramatically overnight.

The elitism of the American ruling class contributes to the dysfunction of our society.

I still have a great deal of respect for President Carter for sending Amy to DCPS.

No, elitism has nothing to do with it. The dysfunction of DCPS is what primarily contributes to the dysfunction of DCPS.

I heard of some coming from Latin, some from St. Peters, from Brent and some of the other schools mentioned above, I also heard they may have some who are coming from out of state with families that recently moved to DC, also some homeschoolers.

Amy Carter was absolutely miserable at her school. Politicians should do what is best for their children. Last I heard, Obama wasn't running the DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the Obama's were considering pulling their daughters from Sidwell.

Quite frankly, the Obama's should send their girls to public school.

Politicians and public officials should be forced to avail themselves of the services they manage -- education, medicine, transportation, etc. The caliber of those services would then improve dramatically overnight.

The elitism of the American ruling class contributes to the dysfunction of our society.

I still have a great deal of respect for President Carter for sending Amy to DCPS.

Around 20 from Brent.

Anonymous wrote:Watkins

Around 10 from Watkins.

Anonymous wrote:Mann

A handful from Mann as well.

Anonymous wrote:Curious about what schools Basis is drawing from. Other threads have indicated a lot of students from Brent, several from Yu Ying, I know of 1 or 2 from Latin. Where else?

A handful from Latin, not one or two.

They've had to put up a barricade to keep out the UDC students.