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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, OP, your money management over the many decades of your life is paramount here, for you and your children.

Unless you're so wealthy you can't tell the difference, I strongly advise you to pay for intensive Orton-Gillingham dyslexia tutoring outside of school, and continue with whatever public school you prefer. I prefer the MCPS clusters in Bethesda, Potomac and Chevy Chase, and for "gifted" services, my SN kid was accepted into the MCPS Gifted, Talented and Learning Disabled program at North Bethesda Middle School and Walter Johnson High School. But if you can't move, your NW DCPS will work too.

This approach will come out cheaper than SN privates, and the remediation will be more targeted to your child, so it will probably be better. Families at SN privates often need to supplement too. You'll be able to save/invest the money you'd have spent on years of private to grow her college fund, pay for graduate school, car, or downpayments on housing, whatever else that's needed in the future.

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I would be very careful about NW DCPS.  I say this as a parent who moved from NW DC to MCPS, although I would have preferred to stay in DC to live.  There are specific gifted programs in MCPS that DCPS simply does not have -- magnet programs for gifted students some of whom also have IEPs or 504 plans, the N. Bethesda Gifted and Learning Disabled program which is a program you can be placed into as part of your IEP from any MCPS school, an elementary gifted and learning disabled Barnesly ES (I think this still exists).

As a tutor I regularly find undiagnosed dyslexic kids in MCPS and DCPS.  My experience is anecdotal, but I have found kids that are more seriously affected and either unidentified and unmediated or parents have been told the student is remediated when it is obviously not true. This has been over the past decade or so, and recently US DOE Office of Civil Rights found, after investigation, that DCPS violated the civil rights of special education students through service removal, denial of FAPE and evaluation delays and denials.

MCPS is far from perfect, but I do think that systems have more potential. 
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