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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The data on high needs students (ELL, students with disabilities, at risk) is collected during the enrollment audit and posted by OSSE. 2017-18 was not an anomaly.

The percentage of students at each level of disabilities (1-4) the sectors are virtually even and have been for a few years now.

DCPS sends a higher percentage of its students to private special education schools than charters. Should we consider that kicking students out and keeping who they want?

You look this up enrollment audit report too.

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Please feel free to re-calculate the numbers if you would like.  Without the adult ed charters.

The private school population is so small that it's hard to draw statistical conclusions from it.  I suspect DCPS gets a lot of these kids through Early Stages (another great example of a service to high-needs kids that DCPS offers and charters don't), so they end up in private schools directly without going through the school choice process in the same way general education kids do.[/quote]

I don’t think you know what you’re taking about. All LEAs have to evaluate children for disabilities, and I doubt there are many private placements straight out of Early Stages.

You need to give up this argument because nobody is persuaded. “Charters don’t serve special needs kids” is clearly a union shill lie. [/quote]

In DCPS kids go from Early Stages evaluation to a self-contained preschool class and then to private if more is needed.  Or to River Terrace or St. colette.

The argument is not that charters don't serve special needs kids.  The argument is that they don't serve *more*, especially when you look at PK-12 and not adult ed.

The real point I'd that charters don't have the same responsibility to take all kids mid year, so it is not an equivalent comparison to compare budgets or performance.  And that charters push out the most difficult kids.  Most at risk kids do not have severe behavioral problems and are not extremely below grade level.  Most kids in special ed, even with Level IV IEPs, are delightful if their needs are being handled correctly.  But there is a group of very hard and expensive to serve children (and sometimes it's actually the parents that are difficult) that charters try to avoid, so DCPS must serve.   It isn't about the total numbers.  It is about this small group of costly and disruptive kids.[/quote]

Who should be sent to their own classroom/school. Inclusion is overrated and I think too liberally interpreted.  I think schools should face down any lawsuit that kids who throw desks around the room should be educated in mainstream classrooms. Is that the mosg appropriate setting, really? It would be a good project for DCPS to take in, how to appropriately educate disruptive kids.[/quote]

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