Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.
Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.
What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.
Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?
Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.
I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?
The same mechanism eagle would have used to transfer the lease to friendship would be available to basis.
From listening to the PCSB meeting, I wasn't super clear on it, but I think it would have required DCPS or DGS to agree. Which they might have done in an emergency, but BASIS is not an emergency.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.
I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?
The same mechanism eagle would have used to transfer the lease to friendship would be available to basis.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.
I thought part of the issue was it's actually owned by DCPS and on lease to Eagle?
Anonymous wrote:I would love for DCPCSB to call BASIS equity bluff and make their opening contigent on taking the Eagle Congress heights space. The one at buzzards is much much much too small.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.
Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.
What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.
Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?
Dupont cannot reasonably described as central to students in DC.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.
Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.
What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.
Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone heard scuttle on where BASIS plans to place the elementary school between the two locations in their materials?
Well now they could use one of the eagle academy spaces that just became vacant. My guess is they will want the one on buzzard point and will use some vague language about proximity to (the navy yard portion of) ward 8 rather than lease the one that is actually in ward 8...
I'm not sure those are big enough, but maybe could be with renovations.
Of course their idiotic consultant report that recommended a Dupont location means they can't possibly be expected to locate in a low-income area.
I believe the Congress Heights campus can accommodate over 600 kids and it has a library, indoor pool, STEAM room, and more. It was renovated in 2014: https://www.eagleacademypcs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=752643&type=d&pREC_ID=1160364 It's 0.6 miles from the metro. I would love to see the PCSB tell BASIS that they can expand if they locate there...there was clearly some demand for charter elementary there.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.
Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.
What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.
Is it really so wrong to have one school in the charter system that is popular with kids from all Wards and of all income levels (including upper) who want accelerated math and science work? When there are many in the system that do very well with lower income students (DC Prep and KIPP)? And to realize that kids are coming from literally all over, including Ward 3 and Ward 6, and that they need to be centrally located? And have priority spots set aside for at-risk kids who want to go, too?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BASIS kids commute in from all 8 Wards, and there is currently a culture of using public transit. Of course they want to find a central location.
Riiiiight and the wealth of the area is purely coincidental.
What are you trying to say?
I'm trying to say that choice of location, both now and in the past, is part of how BASIS shapes its student body to avoid having a lot of low-income students.