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NYC_SKP

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1. I reckon they can't collect ADA if she's not in school, if it's like California.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 10:12 PM

Sep 2014

This kind of inflexibility is a big part of why many public schools are collapsing under their own bureaucratic weight.

A smart admin would find a way to provide independent studies credit for her and retain the ADA, if that's part of the problem.

How utterly stupid.

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A 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated as a truant instead of a star student. [View all] elleng Sep 2014 OP

I reckon they can't collect ADA if she's not in school, if it's like California. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1

Yes, SKP. elleng Sep 2014 #2

I betcha this wouldn't have happened if Michelle Rhee was still in charge. Hoppy Sep 2014 #7

Why do you bet that, Hoppy? elleng Sep 2014 #9

Avery was featured in a documentary on Children and the Arts, shown on No Vested Interest Sep 2014 #3

When I was in high school Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2014 #4

In junior high my daughters were exboyfil Sep 2014 #6

I'd like to know what the law is there 4b5f940728b232b034e4 Sep 2014 #5

10, but they have discretion. elleng Sep 2014 #8