Environmental Charter School at Frick Park Fails to Make Adequate Yearly Progress

The Regent Square school was among four 'brick-and-mortar' charter schools in the county that has been put on 'warning' status.

The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park was among the four "brick-and-mortar" charter schools in Allegheny County that saw a status change from "Made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)" to "Warning" after federal education officials denied Pennsylvania's request to evaluate charter schools using more lenient standards. Another nearby charter school, Propel Homestead, also changed to "Warning" under the recalculations. After the recalculations, no cyber charter school in Pennsylvania made AYP. The Post-Gazette reported Wednesday that, without waiting for approval from the U.S. Department of Education, the state Department of Education treated charter schools as districts rather than individual schools when calculating AYP in September. A…

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