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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What you fail to acknowledge is that the freedom to innovate and do things differently than DCPS is part of what is making some of these charters work. I have a child who have profound and significant language based learning disabilities - now in high school with minimal accommodations. The charter school was willing and able to provide much more targetted and better services for him because they had the freedom to hire contractor specialists who were trained in his rare disorder and these services enabled him to now be succeeding beyond all of our expectations. We tried our local DCPS (Takoma) and were offered a fraction of the services by people with no experience. Rather than suing the school system - which we could have done and secured a private SN school placement - we have stayed in charters. 
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but really, not all charters do things as well as they pretend to.  Look at EL Haynes school report card, and compare it to Seaton Elementary's for example.  There is very little difference in the ability to bring high risk children's performance up.

I think we've been sold a false bill of goods, honestly.

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And that's probably partly why Haynes is a Tier 2 school. But there are Tier 1 schools that are getting better results with that population (still not good enough) but many of them are not schools that are ever discussed in this forum.[/quote]

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