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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The thing is, it doesn't matter how you see it. The law requires public charter schools to educate all the students, not just the students they want. When you get kids with disabilities? You don't get to kick them out. The law requires you to educate them according to their IEPs.  
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Of course it matters how we see it - we pay the taxes and vote the pols in and out.  So amend the bloody charter law (it's been done twice before), create a charter-DCPS hybrid (high time), or set up the school differently (with tracking from grade 5) and simpy run Basis under DCPS auspices as the city's first MS academic magent.

Don't simply toss the taxpayer's hard-earned dollars at a school paradigm that can't work well in Chinatown for really obvious reasons.  I dived into the AZ school demographic stats via the 2010 Nation Census and, yes, both branches have Deal-like populations.  It's no secret that we don't have that outside of Upper NW and it's not Upper NW that will be served by this school.  Students will mainly be attracted from Wards 5, 6, 7 and 8.  Deal with reality to avoid waste in government.  Hiding behind the law, as though it's set in stone forever and every charter law in the country mitigates against selective admissions (hardly) is no solution at all.
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Okay. You just go right ahead with those plans to change the law. We all keep talking over here about the reality of the present and what is likely to happen given that reality. Let us know when you have a petition to put an initiative on the ballot or find a candidate that has the vision you have.[/quote]

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