Washington Post writes a story about a charter school

Three weeks ago I reported that City Lights Public Charter School is closing.  Today, Bill Turque of the Washington Post has gotten around to writing about the school's final days.  The timing is curious.  Did someone encourage him not to focus only on DCPS?  In any case here's the part of the story that should be emphasized:

Last year, about 12 percent of the 21,800 students in D.C. public charter schools -- also subject to the court order -- received special education services. The law prohibits schools from asking about learning disabilities or emotional problems during the admission process. As a practical matter, few charters are set up to handle City Lights students, many of whom require heavy support: at least 25 hours a week of care from specialized teachers, psychologists, crisis intervention staff and other personnel. At week's end, five City Lights students had enrolled at Booker T. Washington, Cesar Chavez and Options charter schools.

The charter board did inform all schools with open slots that they could not discriminate against students with disabilities, as Mr. Turque points out above.  However, almost all charter schools limit their special education services to students diagnosed at level 2.  The kids from City Lights are at Level 4, which means that full-time care would have to be provided for them.  Since only charter schools that focus on teaching Level 4 special education have the ability to properly care for these students now, providing parents with a list of schools with available openings does absolutely no good.