Basis Educational Group

BASIS Educational Group. LLC, styled BASIS.ed, is a for-profit education management organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It serves primarily Basis Charter Schools, a non-profit charter management organization with offices in the same complex.

BASIS Educational Group, LLC
Industryfor-profit education
HeadquartersScottsdale, Arizona
Websitewww.basised.com

The BASIS Charter School network is organized by the regions in which the schools operate: BASIS Charter Schools, Inc, BTX Schools, Inc (Texas), BASIS D.C. (Washington D.C.), and BASIS Baton Rouge (Louisiana). In 2021, BASIS Charter Schools' 31 campuses enrolled 29,000 students. In 2018, BASIS Charter Schools claimed 29 schools and 17,000 students, which matches publicly available enrollment numbers from BASIS Charter Schools. In 2015, BASIS Charter Schools enrolled 12,014 students.[1]: 84 

BASIS Independent School locations

BASIS Independent Schools are private, tuition-based schools owned by Spring Education Group and using the BASIS Curriculum.

New York
  • BASIS Independent Brooklyn, Pre-K-Grade 12
  • BASIS Independent Manhattan, Pre-K-Grade 12

California
  • BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, Grades 5-12 (San Jose, California)
  • BASIS Independent Fremont, TK-Grade 12

Virginia
  • BASIS Independent McLean, Age 2-Grade 12

BASIS International School locations

China
  • BASIS International School Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China)
  • BASIS International School Guangzhou (Guangzhou, China）
  • BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour（Huizhou, China）
  • BASIS International School Hangzhou (Hangzhou, China)
  • BASIS International School Nanjing (Nanjing, China)
  • BASIS Bilingual School Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China)

Thailand
  • BASIS International School Bangkok (opening scheduled September 2019)[2]

Controversy

Critics observe that the relationship between BASIS Educational Group and BASIS Charter Schools is not arms-length. As a result, there is little financial transparency.[3] An investigative article in 2010, when there were three schools in the network, rather than the 29 schools operating in the 2020-21 academic year, compared the founders' salary to the teachers and other public school administrators.[4]

The schools have suffered high attrition rates (senior classes are typically a third to a quarter of the size of the fifth-grade class). Critics argue that BASIS achieves great test scores in part by weeding out underperforming students, which is illegal. BASIS has denied this and notes that it cannot legally "weed out" students at a public school—and there is no proof of such action.[5][6][7]

In 2013, the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board rejected a request to expand, citing concerns about the high number of students who had withdrawn from the school since it opened.[8]

References
  1. Woodworth, James L (2017). "Charter Management Organizations 2017" (PDF). Center for Research on Education Outcomes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. "BASIS brings its international school to Bangkok". The Nation. January 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. "Charter transparency". Azcentral.com. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
  4. "Basis School Execs Salaries Rose Fast". Azcentral.com. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  5. "conservatives on BASIS print the legend". blogforarizona.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  6. "BASIS and University High are Top U.S. High Schools, which means...?". tucsonweekly.com. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  7. "Success by Attrition". blogforarizona.com. Retrieved 2014-06-22.
  8. Brown, Emma (16 April 2013). "D.C. charter school board rejects request from BASIS to expand". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
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