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  "Over what period the trajectory measures. DESE publishes the file with no documentation of the interval between the starting placement and the destination, and nothing in the workbook states it. Every rate on this page is therefore a rate over an unstated span.",
  "That a substantially separate placement leads to out-of-district. The cohorts starting there end out of district far more often than the cohorts starting in an inclusive setting, and that is a measurement about children who were already placed differently. Selection alone fits it: the children placed in the more intensive setting are not a random sample of the others.",
  "That the route runs through the district at all. The district told the School Committee in February 2026 that children arrive in Lunenburg already requiring an out-of-district placement. Such a child enters the town\u2019s count without ever appearing in a cohort followed from an in-district setting.",
  "Which of the two published counts is right. They agree in some years and not others, and both are published above rather than averaged. The town counts on 1 March from SIMS Report 7; DESE publishes its own on its own census, and nothing states the two dates together.",
  "What any of it costs. A placement count is children placed. It says nothing about which fund paid or what any placement cost \u2014 that is the companion report, and it is a separate page for this reason."
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