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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck with challenging.  The path sounds arduous, expensive and incredibly time consuming.

With BASIS getting multiple seniors into MIT and Ivies each spring these days, admins aren't going to be sweating more robust SN accommodations, unless more SN families sue BASIS successfully.  That's unlikely to happen and would take years if it does.[/quote]

or unless ... the entity responsible for oversight and compliance holds Basis accountable, which the Charter Board appears to be doing.  [/quote]

The crux of the problem is that the ed powers in this city want to have it both ways: they want to continue to underfund charters relative to DCPS programs on a per capita basis while requiring the latter to provide DCPS-level support for SN students and English Language Learners.  They don't want students with disabilities and poor kids to be excluded from the best public schools, but refuse to provide the GT education that would help the brightest poor kids students enjoy strong representation in the public HS programs offering the most rigor.  They want high-performing test-in magnets that compare to the top performers in other US cities, but won't support the requisite K-8 prep and ability grouping to create them.  Something has to give, with the charter board, OSSE and the Mayor's office turning a blind eye because they boxed themselves into a corner long ago.  At BASIS, conveniently, it's support for SN and ELL.  As long as a couple students a year from BASIS continue to crack MIT and Yale, no politician is going to mess with BASIS DC.  It's no secret that the franchise has found far more fertile ground to expand its public school empire in Texas and Louisiana than in DC.  The Charter Board is toothless without political backing.[/quote]

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