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My son is having his IEP yanked at a DCPS. Meanwhile his friend at a charter has an extraordinary IEP team. I know charters have their individual issues but I do not buy any of the conventional wisdom accusations against charters anymore. [/quote]

How many charters have self contained rooms?  We all already know about Bridges.   How many others?  How many have BES classrooms (these are behavior classes fit kids with emotional disabilities).  So spare me the I don’t believe conventional wisdom crap. [b]Charters do NOT educate the hardest kids[/b]. [/quote]

Does DCPS educate them? Or just warehouse them?

Parents actually choose to send their kids to St. Colletta’s (for kids with IDs) and the Children’s Guild (behavior problems).

Yes, charters could do much better for kids with special needs, but so could DCPS.
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I would also make the point of scale.  Not all DCPS schools have self contained classrooms or BES classrooms.  But DCPS is large enough with hundreds of schools to be able for some schools to have these.

Most charters are 1 school.  They do not have the funds, capacity, or space for these things.

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