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[quote=Anonymous]In DCPS, social promotion is mandatory by law except in a few grades.  I don't think that is the law for charters.  And it cannot be for BASIS.

BASIS was granted a charter that included provisions that ALL students had to take comprehensive exams at the end of the year from 6th-8th grade.  If they fail them at the end of the year, they retake them in the fall.  If they fail again, they have a choice:  repeat the year or leave the school.  That means mandatory social promotion for anyone is out. Including ELL students.

PLEASE tell me that an IEP can only require that students take the comprehensive exams in a DIFFERENT way - like with more time, small room, minimal distractions, etc.  DON'T tell me that IDEA requires that IEP students at BASIS be given DIFFERENT comprehensive exams.

For the DCCAS they give IEP students scribes, they give extra time, they give small rooms, minimal distractions.  They do not give a different DCCAS.

Why should the rules for the BASIS comps, where the outcome for failure is permitted by the charter granted to them, as applied to IEP students, not be the same?

Same tests, taken under different circumstances.  Not different tests.  That would make their charter re comps meaningless.[/quote]

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