| LA | 2011-12 | KIPP Believe Primary | KIPP NOLA sees OPSB as having made some important policy shifts to ensure autonomy and accountability of charters upon return, which makes KIPP NOLA more amenable to considering proactive return. Lewis and Dobard have been collaborating. A few years ago, KIPP wouldn't entertain the notion of unification because they saw no capacity at OPSB, but with a new governor and a changing climate, KIPP expects reunification to happen sooner than later. One respondent says, 'I feel much better about that today than a year ago.' KIPP has also been preparing their Board and parents for how to engage with a unified system, saying, 'I'm confident that whenever we end up under unified governance, we can keep in place what makes KIPP work.' |
| LA | 2011-12 | Clark | Firstline notes that 'return' to OPSB is a misnomer, as Firstline Schools were never under the governance of OPSB in the first place. Firstline is open to OPSB as an authorizer, provided certain criteria which protect charter autonomy and system-wide equity are met: all schools participate in One App; differentiated funding formula; and school-level autonomy on the budget, curriculum and staffing maintains. Firstline believes the differentiated funding formula is crucial: 'why would a school leave RSD for OPSB if that school takes a financial hit in doing so?' Also of concern are transparency in enrollment and expulsion across all schools; facilities maintenance; transportation; and universal access for all students including dropout reconnection, reentry for adjudicated youth, and access to programming for homeschoolers. |
| LA | 2011-12 | Tubman | Crescent City Schools believe that 'we will and probably should' return to local control; saying, 'I am not someone who is fundamentally against the return to local.' CCS sees the current parallel systems as a waste of financial and human resources. But, CCS has doubts about OPSB's capacity to manage the return, and about the lack of protections in place for autonomy. CCS would like to see some of the practices and personnel of RSD transfer to OPSB. |
| LA | 2012-13 | Carver Prep and Carver Collegiate | Collegiate doesn't trust OPSB because of their failure to deliver on past promises around the differentiated funding formula and universal participation in One App. Collegiate considers the resolution of those issues essential, not points to negotiate. Collegiate is also pessimistic about the cooperative endeavor agreement and coordination between RSD and OPSB in general: 'RSD is better. I beg to differ when people say they're not better. Even when they were worse, at least they cared that they were worse.' |
| LA | 2012-13 | Cohen | NOCP sees encouraging progress around the return to OPSB, although they say 'there's still a way to go.' In particular, NOCP has concerns about the makeup of OPSB itself and looks to the 2016 elections to see if the local board will be able to share and steward a common vision. There are also concerns about the capacity of NOPS to have effective structures and staff in place to manage accountability and oversight, especially compliance around enrollment, SPED and discipline. NOCP believes that compliance and accountability functions are things RSD and LaDoE have not done well. There are concerns about protecting school autonomy and bringing positive learnings/systems from RSD into OPSB (e.g., One App, centralized expulsion, DFF) with the unification process. NOCP sees the process of each school retaining the option to choose its authorizer as 'not coordinated, coherent, or sustainable.' |
| LA | 2012-13 | Craig | Friends of King report that they never expected not to return to OPSB - 'home is OPSB.' FOK's board had confidence in Henderson Lewis. FOK wants to have an advocate, and believe that the RSD structure doesn't allow for that in the way a district representative to OPSB does. FOK is also optimistic that administrative issues (like site codes) will be streamlined with a single, local authorizer in the field. |
| LA | 2012-13 | Crescent Leadership Academy | NR |
| LA | 2012-13 | John McDonogh | NR |
| LA | 2012-13 | McDonogh 42 | Choice Foundation notes that the push from the state legislature to mandate the return to OPSB, coupled with the gubernatorial administration's hostility to John White, has created an attitude among the NOLA charter community of 'let's get the best deal we can now' in order to protect the elements of the CRM that undergird success. |
| TN | 2012-13 | Brick Church Middle School | NA |
| TN | 2012-13 | Humes | NA |
| TN | 2012-13 | KIPP Memphis Academy Middle | NA |
| LA | 2013-14 | Einstein Extension | Einstein has always been an OPSB charter. Einstein, like its RSD counterparts, has concerns about DFF. In particular, they expect that resources will still be limited, regardless of whether RSD schools return or don't and that those limited resources will most negatively impact schools serving highest needs populations (in Einstein's case, ELL and first-generation school goers). |
| TN | 2013-14 | Cornerstone Lester | NA |
| TN | 2013-14 | Hanley | NA |
| TN | 2013-14 | Klondike | NA |
| TN | 2013-14 | KIPP Memphis Preparatory Academy | NA |
| TN | 2014-15 | Freedom Preparatory Academy | NA |
| LA | 2015-16 | KIPP East Community Primary | (see KIPP Believe Primary above) |
| LA | 2015-16 | Wilson | Inspire recognizes that the cooperative endeavor agreement and other RSD-OPSB collaboration formalizes coordination, but Inspire doesn't support all the details of that coordination (enrollment targets, the cap on schools). Inspire also has concerns about DFF.D13 'We have a long way to go.' |