Good Morning,
Eric - They are going to say that the School can't get the money to do the renovations. I am not sure but I would think that this could be worked out with a lease. Someone should go back and see if anyone benefited from the transfer of these schools. Also, the City should have the first right of refusal on a buy back and be able to transfer the school to a new school or back into DCPS inventory.
Maybe DC could actually come up with a creative finance approach to back the Charter School that secures their money and places the liability on the Borrowers and their property.
But, once again - so many laws and procedures are put in place that are full of loopholes from lack of thorough thought or maybe from promises of Campaign contributions, "envelopes", etc. Part of the problem is that the CM's know everything. I mentioned that the CM's got lots of free advice from individuals regarding regulatory and performance Loopholes about the $25 million in benefits for Living Social but didn't take it. There are tons of free advice that the CM's don't take.
Rob Ramson.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Eric <ericindc@yahoo.com> wrote:
What happens when the Charter school fails or there is some new law prohibiting public funds to be used for Charter schools? Hmmm...the Charter School now has valuable real estate on our dime
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--- In ward5@yahoogroups.com, stephanie rones <stephanierones@...> wrote:
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> The city should grant a lease to Charters and DC should retain title. The City should not give away its assets. What happens when all these new residents start having babies? Many folks are not going to be able to send their kids to expensive private schools at $35,000 plus per year, per kid. Furthermore, Public education should remain a priority because charters have not proven their worth. Some charters are good, some are great but for the most part, the jury is not in and charters have not shown themselves to be any better than public schools.
> Congress mandated that DC give priority to charter schools. However, DC does not have to surplus its school buildings. In fact, DC should convert many of its public school buildings to community centers or affordable housing without surplussing them. Once DC gives the school to Charters, it gone. The charter can and does often mortgage the building for much more than they pay and the building is no longer a public asset.> ________________________________
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> We have to be forward thinking and not make decisions based on developer's interests.
> DC needs to put kids first.
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> From: KPW <WKPW3@...>> Â
> To: ward5@yahoogroups.com; concerned4DCPS@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ward5] City Amends Rules for Charters to Take Over Vacant Schools (Housing Complex)
>> Can the charter schools sell a closed school that received if they want or does it go back to the public inventory?> -----Original Message-----From: stephanie rones <stephanierones@...>To: ward5 <ward5@yahoogroups.com>Sent: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 8:47 pmSubject: Re: [ward5] City Amends Rules for Charters to Take Over Vacant Schools (Housing Complex)
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> Also, if the public school is closed, then why is it that a charter school can open up if it has the same curriculum?
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> KPW
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> Once the city gives the schools to the charters, the property is out of public use. This can be used as a convenient pass thru for developers. The public should be weary of this attempt to divest the community of its assets.
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> Those in favor of public education must remain cautious of this end run.> ________________________________
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> Thanks,
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> Stephanie Kristina Rones
> Stephanie Rones
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> From: KPW <WKPW3@...>> Â
> To: concerned4DCPS@yahoogroups.com; ward5@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:16 PM
> Subject: [ward5] City Amends Rules for Charters to Take Over Vacant Schools (Housing Complex)
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> http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/09/24/city-amends-rules-for-charters-to-take-over-vacant-schools/#more-26172
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> City Amends Rules for Charters to Take Over Vacant Schools
> Posted by Aaron Wiener on Sep. 24, 2012 at 5:06 pm> Back in June, Lydia wrote about D.C. charter schools' struggle to find classroom space. On the surface, conditions seemed favorable: Former Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration had closed 23 public schools, leaving what ought to have been ideal buildings for the charter schools to move into. But the byzantine process for procuring those buildings left the city's charter schools, which educate 41 percent of D.C.'s kids, with disproportionately little real estate.> E-mail Aaron Wiener • Follow aaronwiener on Twitter
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> Last week, Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said that a new round of school closures would be announced within a few weeks, increasing the urgency for an improved process for allowing charters to move in.
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> And city officials responded. The Post reports:
> District officials have tweaked the way they determine which charter schools should be allowed to move into surplus public school buildings, an effort to address long-standing complaints that previous decisions were neither transparent nor always fair.
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> >The new points-based system gives an edge to high-performing charter schools that are already operating in the city. But charters new to the District that have a record of raising student achievement elsewhere can also score well.
> There's still room for controversy: The 125-point system includes a bonus for schools in neighborhoods considered to have a high need, based on a disputed study from earlier this year. We'll keep an eye on the new policy to see how well it's working.
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> Photo by Darrow Montgomery
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