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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]

I remain baffled that governments give any money to charter schools.[/quote]

We have quite a few public high schools in this city where fewer than five percent of students are at grade level in math. Yay DCPS! [/quote]

That's not what the math statistics mean, because only a fraction of the students take a CAPE math test each year.

But would you like to know some low-performing charter high schools? Cap City high, Cesar Chavez, Friendship Online, IDEA, KIPP Legacy Prep, SEED, Thurgood Marshall, and Richard Wright all have less than 5 Meeting or Exceeding on the math CAPE. Some of those schools also have middle school in their stats. But anyway, don't be thinking DCPS has a monopoly on low performance.[/quote]

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