The Schenectady City School District is still playing games with the International Charter School.

Though it grudgingly agreed to transfer $485,000 worth of state aid to the charter earlier this week to cover students from the district who are enrolled there, charter officials say the payment — based on enrollment figures it has provided the district — should have been nearly double.

Meanwhile, the charter still hasn’t received the $520,000 it claims was owed from March. For that money, it has filed what is known as an intercept with the state Education Department, as it had to do when the district withheld parts of two prior bi-monthly payments, in November and January. On those occasions, the charter got its money directly from the state (two months late in both cases), but its request from March is still pending.

The school district continues to do its best to harass the charter school operation, which seems more inexcusable than ever now that the SUNY Board of Trustees has decided to shutter the underperforming school at the end of the current year. With all the hoopla surrounding the charter’s fate, hasn’t this been enough of a disruption for the charter’s students already?

Meanwhile, it is the state Education Department’s contention that enrollment disputes like this should be settled at the end of the school year, not in the middle — which is why it continues making intercept payments every time the charter files for one. Since the school district has filed suit over this, why not just make the payments and settle the matter in court, once and for all?