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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My School DC is part of OSSE. So one part of OSSE is saying that these kids can enroll in charters but another part of OSSE is saying they can’t. Seems like a mistake right? Which one gets precedence over the other?

I agree that My School DC/OSSE is the only entity that can decide which guidance the school is supposed to follow. I feel bad for the mom, Early Stages, and the charter school. Seems like they’re all trying to follow policy but the policies are conflicting.

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It's even weirder than that: OSSE itself is specifically saying - in its only formal, vetted, written, and publicly available guidance - that they can enroll, because their official policy in full compliance with DC law which gives charters the same obligations as public schools. And another part of OSSE is saying they can't enroll based on...vibes, apparently? They have given absolutely no official basis for their objections, presumably because none exists. The officials here were also completely unaware of the formal OSSE policy contained in the only written regulations and public guidance on this issue, which...isn't great.

Call me crazy, but my assumption would be that the only policy that was formally codified in writing, is actually in compliance with legal guidelines and has been publicly available for years "would get precedence" over one that has never been written down anywhere, is at odds with DC law and apparently exists only in the minds of MySchool officials who never bothered to check the published OSSE regulations that govern their departments.

I get that quite a few posters here seem to find this situation complicated....what I don't get is [i]why[/i].[/quote]

Right. Everyone keeps saying "the policies" are at odds. Why the plural? We have one policy. We can read it on OSSE's website. Where is this second one that says charters are 100% required to serve all the same special ed kids as public schools...except THESE special ed kids who are served by public schools? [/quote]

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