Testimony of Scott Pearson, Executive Director & Rick Cruz, Board Chair DC Public Charter School Board DC PCSB Performance Oversight Hearing Committee of the Whole and the Committee on Education
The following guide/report has been designed to help school leaders and special education coordinators organize responses and provide required attachments. The guide follows PCSB’s Quality Assurance Review (QAR) tool standards and offers examples of possible evidence to submit. Please note, not every QAR standard is represented in this document.
The School Reform Act (SRA) grants DC PCSB authority to hold DC public charter schools (PCSs) accountable for fulfilling their duties and obligations under the SRA. DC PCSB has created the Performance Management Framework (PMF) to hold schools serving similar grades to the same set of standards. The Performance Management Framework Policy & Technical Guide (PMF Guide) outlines DC PCSB’s process of evaluating and publicly reporting the performance of the public charter schools under its authority. It was created so that school leaders, data managers, families, and other stakeholders would understand how each PMF score was calculated, which measures are used, and how these measures are weighed to form a score.