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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not case law.. as a former charter school employee I just know this for a fact. It is not a controversial issue - the whole point of a charter school is to get out from under the thumb of the public school district. Each charter is its own district. [/quote]

10:05 here. Thank you for answering this. You are correct.  It's not about case law.  It's about how the system is set up.  In the District of Columbia, there is a huge school system called DCPS. And then there are, (what 30? I don't have the exact number), smaller, individual school systems that are the charters.  Those schools have autonomy that DCPS schools do not. Why? Because they are their own school district.  If they want to buy their furniture from Ikea, they can.  If they want to buy 100 iPads they can.  If they want to hire 3 teachers for each classroom, they can.  If they want to fundraise to pay for staffing, they can.  If you are a principal at a DCPS school, however, you do not have that latitude. You have to follow the hiring and purchasing rules of DCPS. If something breaks, you call the maintenance crew within DCPS.  If you are at a charter school, and something breaks, you are responsible for fixing it yourself because you are your own school system.  You don't call the DCPS maintenance crew.  That would be like something breaking in Montgomery County, and they call a Fairfax crew to come fix it.

As for following the rules of providing a free and appropriate education, ALL school systems (DCPS and all the charter school [i]systems[/i]) have to follow the same rules and regulations. That's just a fact.  No case law because it has never been challenged.  I suppose anything can be challenged. But this is pretty much how public education and IDEA work.   [/quote]

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