Notice of Petition to Amend Charter: Goals and Academic Achievement Expectations – Capital City PCS

The District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (DC PCSB) announces an opportunity for the public to submit comment on a written request submitted by Capital City Public Charter School (Capital City PCS) on November 2, 2018 to amend its goals and academic achievement expectations. Capital City PCS is currently in its nineteenth year of operation educating students in grades prekindergarten-3 through twelve across three campuses that share a single facility in Ward 4. The school seeks two amendments to 1) update its goals to adopt the newly revised Elect to Adopt the Performance Management Framework (PMF) as Charter Goals Policy for all three of its campuses, and 2) to clarify the early childhood assessments in its charter to include: the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment for prekindergarten (PK) literacy, math, and social-emotional growth; the Fountas and Pinnell assessment for kindergarten-2 Literacy; and the Northwest Evaluation Association Measures of Academic Progress assessment for K-2 Math. Pursuant to the School Reform Act, D.C. Code 38-1802 et seq., a charter school must submit a petition to revise its charter, which includes its goals and academic achievement expectations