Parent questions PGCPS communication after sudden Excel Academy closure
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Summary
At the Oct. 6 Audit Committee meeting, registered speaker Kwaku Poku said he learned two days before the school year that Excel Academy had closed and asked what the district will do to support reopening and prevent repeat sudden closures.
A parent urged Prince George's County Public Schools officials to explain steps the district is taking after a sudden closure of Excel Academy, saying families received notice days before the school year began.
"My 2 children were supposed to have attended the school this academic year. And I think 2, 2 days before the school, academic year opening, we got a notification that the school was closed," said Kwaku Poku, a registered public comment speaker who addressed the Board Audit Committee on Oct. 6. "What is Prince George County Public School doing to help with Excel Academy reopening for the next school year so that the parents and their children would deem that they can have the opportunity for charter school?" he asked.
Poku also asked what the district is doing "to prevent what happened this academic year concerning Excel Academy academic closure," saying there appeared to be little communication between the charter and the district and that the closure should have been identified at least a week or two before the school year started.
The committee’s public-comment rules, read at the start of the session, state the committee will not engage in dialogue during public comment. Vanessa McNair, another registered speaker on the same subject, did not join the meeting.
No district staff response to Poku’s remarks is recorded in the meeting transcript. Committee leadership said any follow-ups from the meeting would be shared when received.
