Q&A
Discussion on enrollment trends of charter school students in Summer Rising
0:41:30
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67 sec
Council Member Stevens questions the increasing enrollment of charter school students in Summer Rising, expressing concern about the impact on public school student participation. Officials respond by explaining the prioritization process and overall enrollment numbers.
- Stevens highlights the increase in charter school student enrollment from 8,000 to 10,000
- Concerns raised about charter school families potentially taking spots from public school students
- Officials explain that charter school students make up a small portion of overall enrollment (10,000 out of 110,000 seats)
Angela Faloye
0:41:30
So could you restate?
0:41:31
Because you mentioned something.
0:41:33
You said in terms of charter school student,
Althea V. Stevens
0:41:36
yeah, you said the year before you had 8000, and then they show you had 10,000.
0:41:40
So we're are we recruiting for those parents?
0:41:43
Like, What are we doing that?
0:41:44
Like, we are getting more charter school students and not necessarily on the public school side when parents are there.
0:41:50
Because here's the thing, one of the things that we know especially with charter school parents.
0:41:53
There a lot of times, they're they're they're usually on top of that, location, they're filling the things out, right, because to be in a charter school, you have to have some type of diligence, and they're already in that process.
0:42:04
What is happening, that that is not happening with the public school families, and why their numb why are the charter school numbers increasing?
0:42:11
And again, this is not attack on them.
0:42:13
But they often have they often have programs in their schools, and, like, they'll have bridge programs, which could also attest to the attendance rates that are happening in our programs because it you know, it's like, okay.
0:42:24
I need someone to come in for 3 weeks, and I'm gonna sign up, and now we have that spot.
0:42:28
Filled by them and our young people.
0:42:30
And so I just don't want us not to skip over some of the things, especially when we're seeing the numbers increase in.
