What does "instructional support" actually mean?

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to TRY?

They had a bad year?

The better question is to ask the school leadership what they think happened and most importantly, what they will do about it. If they stay at this level for 2 or more years, then it's time to worry.

Not necessarily a bad year. The performance score for the prior year only included a couple of indicators -- attendance, re-enrollment, preschool observations (called CLASS). The 2018 report is the first time that PARCC scores are included for TRY. Those seem kind of low especially when you consider that there are Ward 8 schools with a much higher population of disadvantaged kids that are outperforming TRY.

Anonymous wrote:What happened to TRY?

They had a bad year?

The better question is to ask the school leadership what they think happened and most importantly, what they will do about it. If they stay at this level for 2 or more years, then it's time to worry.

What happened to TRY?

Anonymous wrote:Yu Ying is 93.8?! Is that the highest ever for an elementary? What caused this increase?

Their PARCC scores were unusually low in 2017 so they were able to show strong growth in 2018.

Also, they have an exceptionally low number of economically disadvantaged students and the generally high test scores that come with that, in addition to being able to control their testing cohort by not admitting new students after early elementary.

They are a fine school, but there are lots of quirks in the system that allow them to perform they way they do.

Yu Ying is 93.8?! Is that the highest ever for an elementary? What caused this increase?

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

This is false information. This year sela has three PK3 classrooms, and they only had two last year. The school continues to grow, albeit slower than other charters.

I believe the poster was talking about Harmony, not Sela.

Oops- my bad!

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

This is false information. This year sela has three PK3 classrooms, and they only had two last year. The school continues to grow, albeit slower than other charters.

I believe the poster was talking about Harmony, not Sela.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

This is false information. This year sela has three PK3 classrooms, and they only had two last year. The school continues to grow, albeit slower than other charters.

PP was talking about Harmony's enrollment, not Sela.

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

I think the parent company is propping it up financially. Though why they would do that is a mystery-- how does it benefit them to have a failing school year after year? But they are. So it will only end if the PCSB pulls the plug.

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

This is false information. This year sela has three PK3 classrooms, and they only had two last year. The school continues to grow, albeit slower than other charters.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep - apparently someone at PCSB realized these went live early.

There is a press conference planned to release these tomorrow.

I don't see anything here that would require an emergency PCSB meeting.

If Ideal or Roots or Democracy (or City Arts or less likely Harmony) is not going to make payroll for October, that would be an emergency. That was the triggering mechanism in the case of WMST

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

When they applied they anticipated having more than one building under one LEA. A charter's ceiling =/= their current enrollment or building capacity.

That said, it's pretty clear that this school will fail sooner rather than later, whether it's because charter is revoked or simply because enough families leave / fail to enroll for them to make ends meet.

Anonymous wrote:Yep - apparently someone at PCSB realized these went live early.

There is a press conference planned to release these tomorrow.

I don't see anything here that would require an emergency PCSB meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:Sela is also Tier One JUST BARELY but their number is dropping (74.1 to 60.7). Here's a question I have about Sela that also may apply to Harmony and others. They projected in their charter school agreement to have 310 students enrolled in SY 17-18. They had 202 students last year. How do they keep the lights on or are they just scaling their size and model to the reality of their enrollment?

Harmony's ceiling was 432 students for last school year. They had 94 students enrolled.

There is no way 432 kids would fit in that building.

At 60.7 they moved to Tier 2...sela has met their goals for younger grades, but just not older grades. Part of the problem is that like many immersions they don’t accept kids after second grade.