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[quote=Anonymous]Closing by cluster doesn’t work. Special ed programs pull from multiple clusters. Some only have 1 or 2 sites in the whole county (like Extensions, or RICA). So if the weather in the service school’s cluster is fine but the roads in the student’s cluster are not, then what? The gen ed kids have school while the special ed kids aren’t there, miss their inclusion classes, etc? That is a violation of FAPE, and a guaranteed lawsuit. These students are entitled to curb-to-curb transportation. So what, you send a bus into the cluster with the dangerous roads so the student can get there? Then you have your picture on NBC4 with the bus tipped in a ditch like last week.

I won’t even start on magnet schools, since there is no legal entitlement to magnet programs (though many DCUMers seem to think there is). But it would be the same problem.

School districts in Maryland have always been organized at the county level. Over the years, this has led MCPS to set things up a certain way. The plus side is lots more specialized programs than are available in small districts, which end up paying more to farm their kids out to non-publics or paying other districts. The downside is days like today. It is what it is. [/quote]

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