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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter schools are public schools, and as such, they must comply with IDEA, which is federal law.[/quote]

That's a separate issue from the rest of public school law.  Nobody said charters didn't have to comply with IDEA.  But the question I'd ask is if the charters are adequately supported where it comes to serving special needs students.  I doubt charters receive the same amount of money per special needs student as DCPS does.  Charters already get shortchanged everywhere else to begin with.[/quote]

Bullshit.  That money comes straight from OSSE, and it is in accordance with a formula that has strict guidelines for the number of hours students receive accommodations and services.[/quote]

Really?  Says here they spend $80 million dollars to educate less than 1500 special needs students via DCPS.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/council-questions-push-for-special-ed-students-in-dc-public-schools/2013/04/22/29ac6aaa-ab85-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html

That's at least $50,000 allocated per student on the DCPS side.  [/quote]

That 1500 number represents the number of students with IEPs that dcps has decided need to be educated  In private school. According to the DCPS website 17% of their students have an IEP so the actual number is around 7,440. So no, not 50,000 per kids. More like 11,000 per kid. [/quote]

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