Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 10:09     Subject: Re:One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Community Academy operates three schools, named Amos 1, Amos 2, and Amos 5, serving preschool through eighth grade, as well as an online program.


Naming not one, but FIVE schools after himself should have been a clue to the Charter Board that this guy was a rat.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 10:08     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
I hope they turn the illegal parking lot back into a field.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 10:06     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:Community Academy is going to close! Good riddance to piece of sh** Kent Amos and all the trouble he has caused.

It has some amazing properties, including the one next door to MV: Can't wait to see some good operators get into them!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-board-moves-to-revoke-charter-for-community-academy/2014/12/16/12eeac5a-84d8-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html


Millions of taxpayer dollars in the bank and the best attorney the school could find was A. Scott Bolden?
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 10:01     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:Dang, I wish we could know which schools were going to take over the CAPCS buildings, especially the one by the Fort Totten metro for us, before the lottery application process closes in March.


I know. That building and location are both great.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 09:27     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Dang, I wish we could know which schools were going to take over the CAPCS buildings, especially the one by the Fort Totten metro for us, before the lottery application process closes in March.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 09:22     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
These charters are cash cows.


As opposed to pure, noble DCPS which only hires and contracts with altruists. At least the dubious characters in the charter world get outed.


Not by the charter board. They only time they take action is when they are forced to take action by a DC Government agency, aka the Attorney General's Office.





Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 09:17     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How will they handle the inventory of their buildings? Especially the on near Fort Totten metro. This may be good news for Bridges. They could just move across the parking lot.


And the sharks are circling!


Doesn't Lee still need a permanent location also?


Yep
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 09:04     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How will they handle the inventory of their buildings? Especially the on near Fort Totten metro. This may be good news for Bridges. They could just move across the parking lot.


And the sharks are circling!


Doesn't Lee still need a permanent location also?
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 08:34     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:
These charters are cash cows.


As opposed to pure, noble DCPS which only hires and contracts with altruists. At least the dubious characters in the charter world get outed.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 08:06     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:If they didn't want to give up Options and yield market share,
they'll just be transferred to another operator.

[/b]These charters are cash cows.
[b]
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 07:32     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
If they didn't want to give up Options and yield market share,
they'll just be transferred to another operator.

These charters are cash cows.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 07:31     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:How will they handle the inventory of their buildings? Especially the on near Fort Totten metro. This may be good news for Bridges. They could just move across the parking lot.


And the sharks are circling!
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 07:17     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
The charter board is ineffective. They had knowledge of Amos' theft, yet they renewed the charter just last year. It had to take the AG's office to file a lawsuit before PCB was forced to take action. They're really worthless or complicit with bad charters. Amos is not alone.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 07:00     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put the brakes on granting new charters??


That would make it harder to weed out the bad actors. How can you close failing schools if you're not opening new ones?


They go to improving dcps schools


Come on, even the mediocre "improving" DCPS have waislists. Name one DCPS that have score above 60 and doesn't have a wait list. That baseline # is pretty sad but true.


That depends on the grade. Our IB school has scores around that range (math above, reading below), but we still have a few spots open. Just not in the early years.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2014 06:58     Subject: One less corrupt Charter school with shady management contracts
It took a long time for the charter board to figure out just how corrupt Kent Amos is. Many of us were dubious of him in the beginning when he took over some our best neighborhood assets while openly dissing us.