Lock them away and throw away the key. All Chicago wants is a label and the child's fate is sealed. The child will get whatever they get while Chicago manipulates the maximum amount of financial incentives for them to segregate the children away. Chicago never implemented the LRE provision, the heart of the federal statutes. As the federal judge wrote in Corey H. v. Board of Education of Chicago and the Illinois State Board of Education, the evidence demonstrated children with disabilities were rarely placed in regular education settings and there was virtually no training of teachers in regular ed settings to deal with a child with special needs.
Evaluations are a fraud.
They just assign a label. IEP meetings are a fraud. The placement has already been chosen. When the suit was brought, some Chicago personnel spoke honestly about the indefensible actions of the city schools and the city eventually settled their part of the lawsuit. The 'case' it presented at trial was unpersuasive and unsupported by the facts and the law.