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Rocketship Test Scores Over Time

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Rocketship Test Scores Over Time

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Rocketship Test Scores Over Time

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Rocketship API has consistently dropped 26 points per year on

average

Projected 2016 API is 740

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Rocketship Test Scores Over Time

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Slide 5 Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/

Average

Bottom 25%

API Change from 2012 to 2013

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Rocketship Si Su Puede

Rocketship Discovery

Rocketship Los Suenos

API Growth 2012 - 2013

Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/

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API Growth 2012 to 2013

Rocketship K-5 schools fell

30 points on average from 2012 to 2013

John Danner’s Blog Founder of Rocketship

http://beyondschools2.blogspot.com/

Slide 7 http://www.beyondschools2.blogspot.com/2013/07/minimum-viable-instruction.html

Rocketship Education founder John Danner leaves charter school to start online-learning company By Sharon Noguchi 01/31/2013

Danner's no-name company [Zeal] -- which besides himself includes two programmers in Bulgaria -- will begin testing its first prototype next week at one of Rocketship's schools, he said.

ARE ROCKETSHIP CHILDREN BEING USED AS TEST SUBJECTS FOR MINIMUM VIABLE

INSTRUCTION? Slide 8

Student to Teacher Ratio

• Ms. Jessica Garcia Kohl testified to City Council on June 18th 2013

– “We maintain more or less one professional teacher to 30 students at most”

Source: Civic Center TV City Council June 18th : Agenda Item 11.3 ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING, Brilliant Minds 5:59 to 6:01 Slide 9

Rocketship Board Business Committee Materials July 23, 2013

Rockethip’s Morgan Hill Charter Petition

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Student To Teacher Ratio

• Rocketship’s representative says student to teacher ratio is 30:1

• Rocketship Board materials and charter application says student to teacher ratio is 41:1

– With “redesign plans” to move to 50:1

• Washington’s student to teacher ratio is 20:1

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The founders of a San Fernando Valley charter school were sentenced Friday for the misappropriation of more than $200,000 in public funds in a case that could affect charter schools statewide.

Yevgeny "Eugene" Selivanov, the co-founder of Ivy Academia Charter School, faces four years and eight months in prison.

Charter school founders sentenced in misuse of funds October 04, 2013|By Howard Blume

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BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE

In Support of Ivy Charter Schools California Charter Schools Association

PAUL C. MINNEY, SBN (who also represents Rocketship)

“The nonprofit operators of charter schools are private entities under contract with local

school districts and are not the state, nor a county, nor a city, nor a town, nor a district, nor any other “public agency” of the state.” Slide 13

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California Department of Education School Site Recommendation

California Department of Education recommends a school site 9 times larger than the proposed Rocketship Tamien Site

Tamien Rocketship = 1.4acre

Slide 15 http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/sf/guideschoolsite.asp

Washington Elementary 6 acre site

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Proposed Rocketship School Campus would almost fit in Washington’s Soccer Field

Planned 1.4 acre Rocketship Site

Washington Elementary 6 acre site

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Too Many Elementary Schools

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Capacity far outstrips

population!!

Slide 20 Source (Number of Students): Deciannual Census http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk Capacity: Rocketship SCCOE Material Charter Revision increasing enrollmnet to 700 students/school, approved 5/15/13. Historical data based on SARCs. Capacity of Washington, Alma & Mateo Sheedy included.

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The Community has been clear! Our needs are parks and secondary schools. We do not need more elementary school!

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When our citizens speak out against a plan, the City should listen, even if the citizens are Spanish speaking or low income

Planning Commission Staff Report Ignores Citizens

Staff has acknowledged concerns, but

taken no action to address

them.

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• We are currently having tremendous problems like traffic, as well as promoting and recruiting children around Galarza and Washington schools. We want to avoid serious conflicts for the entire neighborhood. We want respect for the parents and children of these schools by the personnel of Rocketship. Sincerely, C.V.

• I feel very sad that many of the parents from Rocketship charter schools verbally abuse and harass the parents from Washington Elementary School, saying that Washington students are academically below Rocketship students when I believe this is not true. The parents from Washington do not harass the parents of Rocketship. Sincerely, G.L.

• In my opinion we all deserve respect. I do not appreciate that there are people at Rocketship who accused the principal here at Washington of threatening me to stay at this school. I am not, and do not feel threatened by anyone to continue to have my children well-educated here. Each person should be able to have their children wherever they feel is best. Sincerely B.P.

• One thing that bothers me is the fact that some Rocketship parents say, non true things about our school. For example, they accuse Washington of being a low academic performing school, and that parents and teachers are irresponsible. Sincerely M.M.

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Number of Certified Staff

Percentage of Staff with a Masters

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Rocketship Mateo Sheedy

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Rocketship

Washington

Rocketship

School Staff & Education

Slide 26 Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/df/#cert

Number of Resources

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Washington Elementary has 7.5 professional support staff, compared to 1.6 for Rocketship.

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Teacher Retention

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Traditional District Schools

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Teacher Experience

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Slide 29 Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/df/#cert

Questions on Waitlist

“Rocketship counters that demand is high: 978 families in Tamien are on Rocketship’s waitlist”

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2010 Census data

There are 745 Children in

Tamien ages 5-14 in the

Tamien Community, Census tract 5031.13

Quote: “978 families in Tamien are on Rocketship’s

waitlist”

Slide 31 Source: 2010 Census: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk

Questions on Performance Claims • November 6th, 2013 Brilliant Minds Planning Commission

meeting, Rocketship’s Jessica Garcia-Kohl says: “We are among the top 5% of schools in California serving predominantly low income students and that is true today.”

August 7th, 2013 Board Materials

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Questions on Performance Claims

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Elementary

Rocketship Si Se Puede Academy

Rocketship Mosaic

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Rocketship Discovery

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Average

Rocketship State Rank as compared to Predominantly Socio Economically Disadvantage Elementary Schools

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Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/apidatafiles.asp. 2013 growth data file. Elementary Ranked by API for Socioeconomically disadvantage percentage > 50% . Record Equation: SD_NUM/VALID >=50%

Questions on Finances

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Questions on Finances

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Source: Morgan Hill Unified Board Agenda, Nov 5th, 2013 Slide 35

Is Local Network Solvent? Morgan Hill Unified Concerns on

Rocketship Solvency

Slide 36 Source: Morgan Hill Unified Board Agenda, Nov 5th, 2013

Is National Network Solvent?

Based on projections made available for a Rocketship board meeting this week, Rocketship Southside Community Prep, at 3003 W. Cleveland Ave., won't break even until 2016-'17. The parent network based in San Jose, Calif. will help provide some relief, according to Rocketship documents. Venskus said a higher-than-anticipated number of children with special needs enrolling in the school had also affected financial projections. About 14% of the school's students have special needs, compared with an average 7% of students with special needs at the network's California schools.

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August 7th, 2013 Board Materials

Significant need for external fund raising for the next 5 years raises questions about long term solvency.

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National Offices have sole authority to close schools

• Unelected board does not provide adequate community feedback in case school would close.

• Joint use agreement makes this different than a normal charter or private school.

• Rocketship is a young organization, heavily leveraged with aggressive growth plans.

• Are they sufficiently solvent for a 30 year joint use agreement?

• Is there contigency for a system wide Rocketship failure?

• High Density of Rocketships in community make solvency requirements more strict.

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Internal Questions on Growth

From August 7th, 2013 Board Materials

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Will teacher retention effect long term solvency as growth accelerates?

From August 7th, 2013 Board Materials

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