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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids' charter has added people to the special ed team over the past couple years, so I don't think they're counseling out kids with IEPs but rather they're providing more services. My kid has an IEP and someone I know who works in a DCPS said they were surprised my kid gets what she does because in the DCPS school she probably would not have been given so many minutes/hours of services.[/quote]

That’s because funding is based on the level of services.  More services?  Higher needs IEP...more funding.  Charters don’t have to share it with central office.  They get all the funds.  They may, in fact, be making money off of your child.  [/quote]

Wait, so charters are both counseling out kids with IEPs AND trying to make money off them by providing [i]more[/i] services?  I call BS on this argument both ways.[/quote]

Funding is done by LEA.  Charter schools are their own LEA.  This is why they get more money per pupil because they do not have to split the funds for central office.  When DCPS receives their funding 40% of it goes to fund central office positions.  This doesn't happen in charters.  Now charters have to pay for their own service providers, buildings, etc.  But if you can get a child and give them 12 hours pull out/inclusion that moves them up to a Level 2 IEP (more funding).  You already have the special education staff in place, this isn't costing you any more to give these services.  This formula works for a lot of situations.  Give a kid a dedicated aide and if the child only partially needs the aide you can use them to help out with other students in the classroom.  The funding for the aide comes from the child's funding, but you are using it for gen ed.

It isn't rocket science.  Now, the schools that counsel out are more of the KIPP variety which I doubt many here are sending their kids there.  [/quote]

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