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Untrue, this is a funny little thing about charter schools. They do and can push families out after count day. It doesn’t always work but they do try and can, unlike DCPS.[/quote]

Can you give an example?  What do you mean, "do try and can"?  I've worked in charter schools for 13 years and we definitely know of other schools with reputations for "counseling" a family out (e.g., schools may not be able to provide the programming or environment for a student with significant needs), but no charter can just push a family out.

DCPS has resources that charters don't, with specialized programs concentrated at certain campuses. It's unfair to compare all charters to DCPS in this way.[/quote]

The DC government gives a lot more money to DCPS schools than to charter schools, which seems pretty shitty to me. We're penalizing children, and hurting their education, because their parents decided to send them to a charter school? That's a pretty lousy policy.[/quote]

Hon, there was a whole litigation about the funding formula. Read up before you opine. It's a very complicated issue.

Charter schools can have specialized programs, with funding accordingly, they just mostly choose not to. St. Coletta is a charter, so is Bridges, so is SEED. And I believe KIPP operates some self-contained.  So maybe read up before posting. [/quote]

This. Charters want to have the same per pupil dollars as DCPS without providing the specialized services that DCPS provides. But that's not how that funding works. DCPS has higher per pupil spending because it's spending a lot of money to educate a small number of kids with very expensive educational needs, who don't go to charters because the charters have no infrastructure to support those kids. St. Colletta and SEED are the obvious exceptions to that and both have higher per pupil spending because they serve very high need populations.[/quote]

And as for SEED, well.... Ugh.

DCPS has to take all comers, all year. So they get money to allow for that. If charters wanted to agree to take a share of people who move into DC mid-year, maybe the funding system could change. But for now, DCPS deals with it. [/quote]

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