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The secret to kipp success is a lot of drill and kill and a boot camp like atmosphere. It's a prison like atmosphere. Th3y basucally condition the kids into behaving in a certain way. Those who can't handle it get kicked back to their home school and kipp gets all the credit for succeeding in teaching the well behaved, non special ed students. [/quote]

So a KIPP education is worse than living on welfare as a single mother for years on end?  Brushes with the law or prison?  Low-wage jobs or hanging around street corners with nothing to do?  The KIPP schools I've visited have been full of kids learning, behaving in a certain way, yes, like good students.  Media reports tell me that the franchise has been receptive to criticism of the boot camp like atmosphere it creates.

DC charters aren't being given the resources or incentives to deal effectively with most special ed students.  They only get around 80% of the funding of DCPS schools per capita, generally without good facilities in the mix.  I blame the pols and the teachers unions.  Still, I'd love to see Payne and Miner turned over to KIPP, leaving L-T to in-boundary families, special needs kids, too.

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So schools need incentives to deal with special ed students? What about the Americans with Disabilities act? IEPs are legally binding. [/quote]

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