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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a wonderful opportunity. I hope they open it up to charter students as well. This would be great for the immersion charters where students have spent years learning another language.[/quote]

I think the charters will need to create and fund their own study abroad programs.  DCPS students don't get to enjoy charter-schooled funded programs.  You really can't have it both ways.  [/quote]

It isn't having it both ways.   Unless DCPS students are funding their own trips, there is no reasonable way to demand charters self-fund.  They already get less funding than DCPS as it is.

In short, you're totally and completely wrong.[/quote]

The challenge is scale - DCPS can seek $1,000,000 to send 400 students overseas (~$2,500 each, just a guess) with one central office to plan and manage the program.

For 50+ charters to band together and execute the same thing is really hard, and funders aren't going to want to give a grant to each individual school.

I totally agree that this is another example of add'l resources to DCPS that will not showing up in the per pupil funding formula. But I"m more focused on facilities.[/quote] that is a tradeoff of being in a charter school then, isn't it.[/quote]

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