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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all kids are placed through the lottery.  If ITS (or any school) really wanted more at-risk kids, it could operate more self-contilained SN classrooms and work with downtown for placements.  Ask for more Early Stages spots and proactively backfill mid-year vacancies via downtown's placement process.  It isn't really that hard.  If the administration and parents really wanted to, they would have done it already.  Happy Black History Month![/quote]

Actually they can't -- but a charter school can apply to the DCPCSB for approval to offer a special needs preference for students with more hours on their IEPs who would be in self-contained classrooms for part or full days.

To claim this preerence a child must already have an IEP or an IFSP with sufficient hours.

The only charter who has this in place now is Bridges, although St Coletta's is working to get it now.

But there is no way for 'downtown' to place kids at a charter school outside the lottery.[/quote]

If ITS really wanted to serve more at-risk kids, a special needs preference is an example of how they could do it.

Read the MySchoolDC board minutes for this year's changes to post-lottery placements.  As I understand it, post Count Day admissions are now running through a centralized process. It's pretty opaque how it works.[/quote]

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