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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is a DCPS refuge at Lab not currently funded to go there (in a contentious drawn out painful process just trying to get an education for my son who dcps won’t teach to read). Anyway point being the “Lab should be treated special because it educates dcps special Ed kids” is just untrue. I’d say it’s less than 10% who are dcps funded to attend. [/quote]

My understanding is that DCPS used to voluntarily place students there, but during the Gray administration it stopped, and since then the only DCPS-funded kids are ones whose parents have successfully sued or otherwise prevailed over DCPS. Another poster noted that Lab doesn't give the city any break on tuition. So Lab isn't a partner of DCPS or the city, it's an adversary. [/quote]

It was a minor scandal in the 90s. Wealthy white parents were gaming the easily-gamed DCPS system and getting their kids -- some of them with only minor learning challenges that could have been handled by their local public school -- into Lab with taxpayers paying the tuition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/04/02/dcs-tuition-free-zone/78c1f12a-7a83-4812-915d-885534177916/

As of 2013, the most recent year I could find the numbers for, DC taxpayers still were paying the tuition for 70 of Lab School's 360 students. 
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Pretttty sure the kids who entered in the 90s have since graduated.[/quote]

If they haven't, the city [i]really[/i] didn't get its money's worth. [/quote]

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