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DO NOT LEAVE THE CHARTER.  RE-enroll.   You have a lot more leverage for private placement from the Charter than you do from DCPS.
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What how?? Why?? How do we learn more about this?  
Even if this is true I go the impression there aren't many good privates around either?? 
Who do we talk with about this? [/quote]
I am not a lawyer - just a parent trying to navigate DCPS with a child with an IEP.

Here is what I understand:
1 - Each Charter (Or Charter network - Like KIPP) is it own LEA "Local Educational Agency”.   When the Charter was created - they are required to educate all students enrolled - even children with Special Education Needs.    They can't kick your kid out because they do not have a self-contained classroom and your child needs that.   
Federal law requires each LEA to  "locating, evaluating, and identifying all eligible children with disabilities in their district."    In this case - the LEA = district.
Once a student is identified as eligible for services under the IDEA, the local school district is responsible for ensuring that the student receives a free, appropriate public education.

It is not your job to find the right private school for your child - that is your Charter's Job (if they can not provide FAPE within the established structures)

Open up the procedural safeguards document that the school gave you.  There is a contact in there for help - Advocates for Justice in Education.  They can explain it to you.

In your next meeting with the school - ANYTHING they say about a placement outside of the current school write down and send back to them as a part of your meeting minutes.   You might need to have evidence that  and hold them to their statements in the future.  
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This is good advice. Don't many of the placements for places like Lab come from charters in DC?[/quote]

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