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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NO ONE deserves medals for how they educate students with severe disabilities.

This is a tired talking point. And it angers me that the only time it ever comes up here is when ppl are yammering about  DCPS vs charters.[/quote]

^^ exactly. it’s a union talking point that needs to be summarily dismissed. [/quote]

This has nothing to do with the union. NO ONE does a good job educating children with severe needs. It’s disgusting and a true sadness of the education system in this country. [/quote]

right, I know it doesn’t. my point is that it’s not an argument specifically against charters either. [/quote]

IME as a parent of a student with SN, it is. Charters can and do send these children back to their IB school which must accept them and where they will spend another year failing - or being failed by - school before they might get the support they need. The charters don’t deal with the fallout of their failure, DCPSs do. [/quote]

Sigh. Except the statistics just don’t show a huge disparity in the percentage of SN kids in charters vs DCPS. And the expulsion rates are not that different between DCPS and charters either. I just don’t see any systematic research showing charters are uniquely bad at serving SN kids. My own anecdotal experience with my SN kid is bad service by our IB, decent support from DCPS central, and charters that seem much better educated about SN. My friend’s child is very well supported in a charter. Another friend asked every school she toured if they have isolation rooms - charters were all over the map. I just see zero basis to believe that charters as a sector do works than DCPS.

The most recent research I can find on charter discipline is that charters expel at *slightly* higher rates than DCPS. And since DCPS issues long-term suspensions and transfers to alternative schools for severe issues, the expulsion comparison may not be correct. Surely there are grounds for improvement but “charters expell SN kids and that’s why their test scores are better!!” is a union canard.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682673.pdf[/quote]

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