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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the advice from people above seems to be from people who have not gone through this or is out of date. What used to happen in DC is not current. The current DCPS approach is to fight most private placement cases - except some more significant cases, especially if you’re looking for placement at one of their approved placement schools like Chelsea.

In the past, they often paid for placements at Lab. Most people would move their kid to Lab (if accepted) and then show FAPE wasn’t being met at DCPS and DCPS would often just settle. Which is the typical way to go. 
Now they contest it heavily until you get far in the process which includes going through rounds of IEP meetings and arguments with DCPS - and then they may offer a settlement for some portion but not near full pay. In more and more cases they will go to hearing (which means they believe they can win it). Consider how much you may pay the attorneys and consultants and school to get to this point - and it takes a lot of time and effort. 
Labs newish head of school has taken an approach of not really helping or supporting families or trying to make any real in roads with DCPS to do things the school used to do to - and seems completely fine with giving up getting lots of DCPS placed kids vs getting more families who are “fine” with full pay. For instance, they stopped doing school based  IEPs at the school and other things that are complicated. 
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This makes sense. Unless the school keeps f’in up (possible of course) it’s hard to picture a kid who can be accepted to LAB who cannot be served with a DCPS IEP. [/quote]

That's the wrong take away -- DCPS poorly serves the kids and doesn't meet the needs, but then they won't support private placement or anything that comes close to helping many kids - and you are just screwed and left with no good options to help your kid get an education if they 'learn differently' other than paying a huge amount for a school that does provide supports or paying a ton in private tutoring.

They offered to put my kid with dyslexia in a small class setting with kids with a range of different types of disabilities and teacher without any training in O-G or reading methods.[/quote]

I’m sorry, but like the rest of us, you just need to stay on top of the DCPS school, get a good consultant for the IEP, supplement. You are not legally entitled to tuition at Lab, and personally I’m not sure the “special needs” schools around here are worth it anyway.

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Someone is legally entitled to tuition at Lab (or ivymount or at another SN school) if they can show that their disability-related needs aren't being met at dcps. DC does dyslexia terribly, so it doesn't surprise me when people are able to do that. But like everything else in the legal system, having money to enable access to lawyers and advocates makes it easier.[/quote]

You do a disservice by suggesting parents of kids with dyslexia are going to get Lab paid for. Barring something really egregious happening at the school, it’s not gonna happen these days. Just check out OSSE hearing officer opinions on point like this one: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/HOD%20July%202020%20%285%29.pdf[/quote]

But in this case, the family never even tried to attend DCPS schools. [/quote]

In fact, this is a great example of what not to do. Sounds like the parents were never willing to allow their kid to attend a DCPS school; they just wanted DCPS to pay the tuition. I can't see how the judge could have ruled the other way.[/quote]

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