Public schools, by both State and Federal statutes and policies, have the responsibility for providing the "least restrictive appropriate educational environment" for ALL children who live in the District.  This is not easy and, often, is very expensive.  It may involved services ranging from extra-tutoring, to District alternative classroom placement, to "outsourced" alternative school, to, on the extreme end of the continuum, residential placement.  

Rather than getting embroiled in an "outsider" debate about this case (we're all outsiders, and don't know the details of the history  of the case), may I wish the Williams family the best as they work to meet the special needs of their daughter.