Jubilee, a local charter network, showed low performance across the board in its Bexar...
Third-grader Arianna Mancilla raises her hand to acknowledge she finished a lesson in her English Language Arts class Aug. 22. Charter schools like KIPP Un Mundo compete with traditional school districts for students and get rated by the state the same way.Fourth graders passed colorful sheets of paper around on a recent Monday morning at KIPP Un Mundo Elementary School, eager to fold them into paper planes in Luis Arreola’s classroom.
With a show of hands, the students told Arreola which angle they selected - 45 degrees, 90 degrees or 0 degrees - and they all agreed that the distance would be measured using a meter stick. In 2019 - the last year TEA issued the A-F ratings before pausing due to the pandemic - Un Mundo, along with KIPP Esperanza Elementary, had F grades, with scores of 54 and 46, respectively.
This year, schools earning grades below a C are labeled “Not rated” under the state’s Senate Bill 1365, which put a pause on penalties for low performance. Other “Not Rated” charters in the area included Positive Solutions, Bexar County Academy, Promesa Academy, Light House Public Schools and The Gathering Place. Most of these networks have only one school rated by TEA this year. Light House has two.
“We focused on social and emotional learning,” said Daphne Carter, the network’s academic officer. “We actually spent the first couple of weeks of school really getting our students back and learning how they were doing, sort of responding to any trauma that they were dealing with, and then we jumped into academics.
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