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Eric Flack is an American journalist who works as an investigative reporter for WUSA9. He grew up in Washington DC, USA. He attended London School located in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Murrow and Emmy Award-winning analytical correspondent Eric Flack experienced childhood in Washington, DC, and was attracted to revealing at an early age. He chipped away at the school paper in secondary school and school, where Eric was a staff essayist for the Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill.
Eric’s vital turning point went ahead 9/11/2001 when he ended up in the midst of a get-away in New York City during the 9/11 assault on America. He dashed to the World Trade Center arriving minutes before the primary pinnacle fell.
Eric collaborated with a CBS Network newsgroup and documented reports from Ground Zero for the following 4 days. Eric has two years of involvement in nearby news and right now fills in as Executive Producer of Special Projects notwithstanding his analytical revealing job.
In 2012, Eric was cast a ballot Best Reporter in Louisville Magazine’s “Best of Louisville” challenge. His reports have changed the arrangement, the uncovered government squanders, and considered the amazing responsible in government and law implementation.
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‘Where are these kids going to go?’ 43 DC charter schools have been closed since 2009. This one is next
43 charter schools have been shut down by the DC Public Charter School Board in the last decade alone.
By the end of the 2020-21 school year, D.C.’s National Collegiate Prep will be no more – becoming at least the 44th public charter school closed in the District since 2009. Its 276 students will join the thousands who’ve been uprooted by a shuttered charter school during that same period.
D.C. was an early adopter of charter schools, and its system has grown into one of the largest in the country. It’s now roughly the same size as the traditional D.C. public school system.
During the 2018-19 school year, nearly 44,000 students were enrolled at a D.C. charter. The District’s charter schools collectively receive an annual budget of $900 million in taxpayer dollars.
But poor performance, financial mismanagement, and growing demands from the D.C. Charter School Board have left many schools struggling to stay open – and some families struggling to find quality replacements.
Soon, National Collegiate Prep will join that list.
Known as NCP to students, it National Collegiate Prep is located in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods: Ward 8’s Congress Heights. Its enrollment is more than 99% black, with 70% considered at-risk and 60% categorized as economically disadvantaged. Just under 20% of its student body is enrolled in special education classes.
Nigel Jackson, NCP’s social worker, says nearly all the school’s students come from low-income, single-parent homes. According to Jackson, charter schools like National Collegiate Prep help those students catch up by as much as two or three grades in one school year.
But in the eyes of D.C.’s Charter School Board, NCP students are not catching up fast enough.
Because charter schools operate independently from public school districts, they are overseen by a charter school board that has the authority to shut a school down if its test scores go below a 50% performance rating.
National Collegiate Prep’s ratings hover well below that mark.
In 2016, the school dropped to a 32% rating. By 2018, the school declined down to 26%. So last January, in front of a packed room of students, parents, and teachers, D.C.’s Public Charter School Board voted to close National Collegiate Prep by the end of the 2020-21 academic year.
But students and families at National Collegiate Preparatory are not alone.
Using publicly available data, the WUSA9 investigative team found more than 1-in-4 D.C. Charter Schools have been shut down for failing to meet academic standards or financial problems. Forty-three charter schools have been forced to close their doors in the last decade alone – forcing more than 11,000 students to find a new school.
Scott Pearson, the executive director for D.C. Public Charter School Board argued that those numbers do not tell the full story since some charter schools that closed were taken over by other charter schools. However, Pearson did not provide additional numbers.
Pearson says not closing low-performing charter schools hurts the overall quality of the charter school system, even if that means disrupting the lives of some students.
“The disruption to the families is painful, and it’s something we try very hard to mitigate and to minimize,” Pearson said. “But we also think it’s essential that we not allow persistently low-performing schools to keep serving students, use taxpayer dollars, year after year.”
Pearson also said there are dozens of examples of high performing charter schools in the District that do provide great options for displaced students.
Closing charter schools that under-perform is one way to keep the overall average up for the entire charter school system. It’s also a reason D.C. charter schools can say that they outperform traditional district schools.
But families from National Collegiate Prep say shutting their school down does nothing to help students there get a better education.
One such parent is Kamilah Wheeler, whose daughter KniAnn is a 17-year-old senior at NCP. Wheeler said the consistent closures and openings of new schools just doesn’t make sense.
“There’s a break in the educational system when you leave one school and go to another one,” Wheeler said. “So, it’s a big disservice to our kids.”
Even if students manage to find a new school, Nigel Jackson said relocating takes an emotional toll on students.
“They will be part of a cycle of displacement, of being let down, of being maneuvered by a political system that doesn’t care about them,” Jackson said.
“Where are these kids going to go?” Kann asked of her NCP classmates.
School leaders say many will revert to remaining options in their neighborhood.
In the case of students at NCP, that option is Ballou High School, which one year ago was embroiled in a graduation scandal for awarding diplomas for chronically truant students. It’s a school whose test scores are four times lower than National Collegiate Prep.