Anonymous wrote:What DO your godson's parents say?

Sorry.

Well, it's a very atypical situation as to how I came to be his godmother--think a Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization type situation. He does not live with his bio-parents. His current parent justifies it because his bio father lives in DC (who he has never ever lived with in his life). He was having difficulty in his MD school and Friendship accepted him well after the start of the school year to play on their sports teams. She is desperate for him to go to college and they have a good track record of getting kids into colleges.

Anonymous wrote:My godson goes to Friendship Collegiate Academy, though he lives in MD. Their football team (which he plays on) has been investigated for having out of state players.

Great article on the history of that football program by Dave McKenna, who used to write great local sports stories for the City Paper.

http://grantland.com/features/aazaar-abdul-rahim-rise-new-washington-dc-football-power-friendship-collegiate-academy/

One unintended consequence of a citywide charter system is that they can essentially "recruit" citywide. Of course all of the DCPS high schools other than Wilson have a lot of OOB slots, so they could likely do the same thing.

But the article is about a lot more than that.

Anonymous wrote:My godson goes to Friendship Collegiate Academy, though he lives in MD. Their football team (which he plays on) has been investigated for having out of state players.

Another scam on the DC taxpayers

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow, but I'm glad to hear this. Wonder what they will change the school names to.

The Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. DC Esteem Academy.

What DO your godson's parents say?

Sorry.

Really? How does your godson's parents justify this? What do they say about this to you?

My godson goes to Friendship Collegiate Academy, though he lives in MD. Their football team (which he plays on) has been investigated for having out of state players.

Friendship Public Charter School, which recently had its 15-year charter renewed by the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, serves nearly 5,000 students at six District public charter school campuses in underserved communities. Three of these were recently recognized by the charter board as Tier One campuses: the highest rating available. Friendship's Collegiate Academy has a 92 percent on-time high-school graduation rate (the average for D.C. Public Schools is 56 percent). Over the past seven years Friendship graduates have garnered over $70 million in scholarships to colleges and universities across the US. They also support their alumni to ensure that the graduate from college. Their early childhood programs are excellent also.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friendship Public Charter School - is it any good? What's it's story?

Friendship is the largest charter operator in the city. They run 9 schools and have around 5,000 students.

Is it good? There are a lot of bad charter schools and there are a lot of good ones. Which are we expanding here?

lots of data here, decide for yourself if it's good: http://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating-the-schools

Most Friendship schools are tier 1, some tier 2.

I have to say, Scott Pearson has done an excellent job managing the DCPCSB and doing the work in the background. I'm wondering why he doesn't get more credit?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friendship Public Charter School - is it any good? What's it's story?

Friendship is the largest charter operator in the city. They run 9 schools and have around 5,000 students.

Is it good? There are a lot of bad charter schools and there are a lot of good ones. Which are we expanding here?

Nice to see some strategic action and coordination between PCS and DCPS to deal with situations and ensure continuity! It's a good precedent.

DCPS took over Hospitality High recently, so there's some precedent for that. Because of the one-year notice requirement for DCPS boundary changes I guess that school won't have a boundary this year. What will its feeder pattern be? Wonder if they'll announce a 2016-7 boundary for it next year, and how that will change the boundaries of other schools nearby.

I feel for parents who don't get that much time to decide if they'd like to enter the lottery or change their picks, especially those at/applying to the CAPCS or DC Bilingual.

Anonymous wrote:How's Friendship on residency verification? It sounds like the Bloomingdale location has a "Maryland" problem.

I've read on here that it's Riggs Road and Allison Street that have the problem being closer to Maryland. The Bloomingdale issue has to do with out of school time usage by other groups.

Anonymous wrote:Friendship Public Charter School - is it any good? What's it's story?

Friendship is the largest charter operator in the city. They run 9 schools and have around 5,000 students.