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[quote=Anonymous]"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."

What on earth does this mean? You can forget to include something by "mistake." You can issue conflicting written guidance by "mistake." Issuing the correct guidance as your sole policy: there is no universe under which this can be hand-waved away as a "mistake." It was both deliberate and accurate. The only existing published guidance correctly acknowledges the legal reality: that there is no distinction between public and charter schools in terms of the universe of students they serve or admissions policies. It's correct! How on earth is that a "mistake"?

And re: "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." Well, it means the same exact thing for those children as it says on the page, and as it does in practice for the hundreds of them that attend DCPS under this policy. Why would they need to "consider" it? They wrote a policy that is in compliance with current law. It was vetted and published. Now, all they need to do is follow it. That, or they can unilaterally decide that charter schools, which take public money, should be required to reject a group of special needs students DCPS is required to accept - even if those charter schools WANT to follow the same inclusive policy as DCPS, and even if such a bifurcated policy violates existing city regulations.[/quote]

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