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Charter schools are not private schools.  Under the law, schools do NOT get to decide if kids with special needs who are educated in the general classroom are a fit.  The school has to fit the student.  That's how it works.  You don't seem to have internalized that fully and I suggest you do.  Maybe DC schools are not a good fit for you if you think that considering BASIS's proven record of flouting IDEA is "excessive focus."

As for ward locations -- it's right there in the charter law that the applicant has to provide a "A statement of the need for the proposed school in the geographic area of the school site." [/quote]

You are misrepresenting what I said.  There is a world of difference between a charter having to provide "a statement of the need for the proposed school in the geographic area of the school site" and the charter board specifically imposing or suggesting geographic preferences above and beyond providing a statement of need for the geographic area the charter itself proposes.[/quote]

Wards 7 and 8, the two that BASIS refused to consider, have the highest numbers of elementary school aged children. Ward 2 has the fewest elementary aged children. BASIS admitted that their own research showed that families wouldn't travel as far for elementary school as they will for middle and high school. They literally could not come up with an answer at the hearing as to why they refused to consider wards 7 and 8.

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short answer -- no one from WotP or possibly WotR is travelling to Wards 7 or 8 for ES[/quote]

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