The District of Columbia Public Schools acting as the State Educational Agency (SEA) shall identify, by July 1 of each year, all public schools within District of Columbia's Local Education Agencies (LEAS) and all public charter schools that are "persistently dangerous" pursuant to criteria established by the SEA and set forth in subsection (3). The identification of "persistently dangerous" schools shall not include juvenile detention facilities.
By July 1, the SEA also shall send a letter of concern to each public charter school, LEA and school administrator whose statistics for the previous year indicate that his or her schools are at risk of being identified as persistently the following year.
A school is determined to be persistently dangerous if the annual number of officially reported violent crimes against students, on the school grounds, during school operating hours, over a period of two consecutive years is:
The above criterion is effective beginning with the 2005 - 2006 school year.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-E3804