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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the differences are:

Early Stages is the Part B coordinator for the transfer from IDEA Part C FOR DCPS. Early Stages would not know anything about enrollment in charters, they are a DCPS entity that is responsible for part C to B transfer. Early Stages C to B transfer process will either develop an IEP and place you at DCPS, agree to extend your IFSP, or drop you once you show proof of enrollment at a charter.

Part C is run by Strong Start.

For Strong Start Part C to charter Part B transfer, the student would already have to be enrolled in the charter. In this case, Early Stages would not be invoked at all. The only way to be enrolled in a Charter is via My School DC lottery between April 1-October 5 for the following school year, for a child turning 3 before Sept 30. There is no way for a charter to enroll a child who didn’t make the cutoff and isn’t in My School DC.

So put together that means that only kids who are on an IFSP, have been accepted into a charter and have enrolled via the regular lottery, and are still 2 at that time, could engage in a C to B transfer with a charter. So we are talking about kids with summer birthdays. They wouldn’t be placed into a charter “early” because school isn’t in session. They could attend ESY though.[/quote]

This is the kind of knowledge base that made this board so great. [/quote]

Except that they’re wrong. The OSSE regulations specifically state that a child who receives an IEP on their third birthday but misses the birthday cutoff can still enroll in PK3 any LEA that accepts midyear transfers - and they explicitly state that this applies to both DCPS and charter schools. Using those exact words.

The wrinkle is that Early Stages was created to serve the (giant) DCPS LEA before charter schools even existed, and no individual charter school LEA can functionally replicate it. So the retcon is that Early Stages performs the assessments and issues the IEP … and while they can’t list any specific school on the document except a DCPS school, OSSE is quite clear in their only public guidance that the same document could also be used to enroll at any charter that is willing to accept that student.

Is it a perfect workaround? No. But it’s a way of making reality match the policy, even in the absence of funding and personnel.[/quote]

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