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district was failing to evaluate
them on time.” So D.C. became a
national outlier for the number
of children it placed in private
schools, with 2,204, or about 4
percent of students, in the 2011-12
school year, compared to a national average of about 1,300 in each
state, according to federal data.
All those private placements
put a strain on D.C.’s budget. One
estimate found the district pays
as much as $200 million annually
between private school tuition and
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transportation; in a recent budget,
private school tuition cost the district $109 million. In 2006, another court de 7&VR