Not exact matches
To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of
district at public expense — no
district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a
regular school, those who need alternative settings and those
like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.
The
district enlisted a local psychiatric hospital to keep special education students
like Chris in
regular district schools.
As a public
school parent in an urban
district, I see my
district and
districts like mine unfairly maligned on a
regular basis, by state and national officials, by the media and, of course by the charter
school industry.
However, just
like a
regular public
school, a portion of the affiliated
school's budget is deducted in return for administrative services provided by the
district.
And Allison, to imply that the
regular district hasn't siphoned off kids and dumped them in
schools like Polly McCabe, Urban Youth, Wilbur Cross Annex, ACES, and most of all into Adult Ed.
Because charter
schools work «without a
district -
like infrastructure, and often with less public money than
regular district - run
schools,» they struggle to meet the needs of students with severe disabilities, who represent a substantial financial investment (Prothero 2014).
Here's one article or you can google and find some other articles about it too, if you'd
like, but it seems that the Hasidics are taking over the
school district boards and diverting a lot of the funding for religious
schools, which is hurting the
regular public
schools» funding.