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[quote=Anonymous]Your next step is to call My School DC then. Let Early Stages develop the IEP and place her in a DCPS school, then call My School DC and ask about a midyear transfer. Don’t bother Early Stages with questions about charter enrollment.

It seems like all three previous posters are right - yes, that one line of OSSE guidance says your child, once they have an IEP and are three, should be able to enroll in your charter that has open seats and accepts midyear transfers. But also, your charter has no way to do that because it does not appear that My School DC has any mechanism to let them. The guidance really focuses on kids who turn three after the lottery deadline.

Further, the My School DC website acknowledges these early enrollments, but only to say that it is something Early Stages/DCPS does outside of the lottery system. It does not acknowledge any process within the lottery system. Even the midyear lottery process is “an extension” of the previous years process, not a new one for newly three kids. https://www.myschooldc.org/how-apply/students-with-disabilities

Given the fact that Early Stages and My School DC quote the same thing about this only being for DCPS schools, and given that the OSSE guidance goes into excruciating detail about what happens to students that are level 4 enrolled at charters after the April 1 lottery, I almost think that line about students being able to enter any LEA at age three is a mistake. Either that or they meant it, but then literally no one at OSSE or My School DC considered what that meant for children with birthdays between October 1-April 1.[/quote]

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