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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually at risk kids are placed in schools through social services or guardians ad litum, not parents. And I'm pretty sure they can be and are placed without the lottery, at least in some cases, through the Student Placement Office.[/quote]

I've heard of spots reserved in DCPS for those types of placements.  Is the same true for Charter schools?[/quote]

DCPS has a lot more funding, resources and services available to support those kinds of placements than the charters do.  [/quote]

But charter schools have innovation - I thought that's what they said matters.  Are you saying now that a centralized system is better??[/quote]

No, that's not at all what is being said.  What's being said is that there is inequality in the system.

In-class innovation is all fine and good but it can't replace the wrap-around services and supports that at-risk kids need.  DC does provide some funding and services to help support at-risk kids in DCPS schools but they withhold the same funding and supports from charters.

And, until the same funding and support is being provided to charters as there is to DCPS schools, at-risk kids are better off in DCPS schools where they can actually benefit from those extra resources.

And, until those inequalities in the system are addressed, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to be whining about why there aren't more at-risk kids in charters.[/quote]

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