The U.S. Department of Education has funded two studies to examine
special education in charter schools.
In response to compelling needs in the charter school sector, Lauren Morando Rhim and Paul O'Neill launched the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) in October 2013.
We created The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) to fill the current void and proactively seek to foster innovations that will benefit both charter and traditional public schools.
In an effort to document and promote school models and practices that effectively serve students with disabilities in charter schools, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) asked the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) to conduct two case studies about exemplary schools that respectively leverage available opportunities and mitigate challenges.
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Check out our newest report, «Key Trends in
Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).»
NCSECS recognizes the tendency to rely on anecdotal evidence in the conversation about
special education in charter schools and seeks to address this issue by conducting select qualitative and quantitative research.
As part of its effort to share best practices with the special education community, The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) identified several public charter schools across the country as «Centers for Excellence» and is communicating how each school uniquely leverages its autonomy to benefit students with disabilities.
(I'm now the head of the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools.)
Legislative proposals to change the formula for funding
special education in charter schools have, to date, been unsuccessful.
Utah gets some props from the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools.
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The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) recently released an important report, Key Trends in
Special Education in Charter Schools.
Key Trends in
Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection
Yet, as the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) shares in the celebratory moment and continues to promote and highlight best practices occurring in charter schools all over the country, we also know that within the charter sector and specifically for students with disabilities, several challenges remain.
This training is the crucial next phase of a collaboration between the Newark Charter Schools Fund (NCSF) and the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) to build the capacity of Newark charter schools to effectively serve children with special needs and their families.
In New York, there is a three - tiered formula for funding
special education in charter schools.
The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools is about to begin the first of two analyses of these state funding mechanisms.
-- Oak Foundation has approved a second grant to The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) in support of their mission to ensure that students with diverse learning needs are able to fully access and thrive in charter schools.
Dana Brinson with Oak Foundation stated, «The unique and important work underway at The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools highlights the exceptional quality and potential to create change that we expect and prioritize at Oak.
The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools was pleased this week that Congress finally put the worn - out and ultimately underachieving No Child Left Behind Act to bed.
Three recent publications highlight some of the key challenges the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools faces as we work to ensure students with disabilities have ready access to charter schools prepared to provide quality special education and related services.
In April, the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) convened a gathering of CEOs of charter management organizations, special education directors, funders and other leaders to focus on this challenge.
The Impact of LEA Status on
Special Education in Charter Schools discusses how a charter school's legal status as part of a larger local education agency («LEA») or as its own independent LEA affects the autonomy, funding, and programming of the school.
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Special Education in Charter Schools highlights the exceptional quality and potential to create change that
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York City / Geneva Switzerland — Oak Foundation has approved a second grant to The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) in support of their mission to ensure that students with diverse learning needs are able to fully access and thrive in charter schools.
As we found in our November report: «Key Trends in
Special Education in Charter Schools» (2015) which also examined the Civil Rights Data Collection (2011 - 2012), disproportionate discipline is inarguably a national crisis.
Lauren Morando Rhim is Executive Director and Co-Founder of the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools.
The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) released a report today, «Key Trends in
Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection,» which examines 2013 - 2014 data on enrollment and placements of children with disabilities in the nation's charter schools.
The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools Equity Coalition released a joint statement urging the charter sector to commit to strong and fair discipline practices for all students, including students with disabilities, saying:
At the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools, we see charter schools as important players in the increasingly diverse portfolio of public options for all students.
Senior Director, National Charter School Resource Center; Board Chair, National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools (Note: Opinions expressed are his own)
Improving Access and Creating Exceptional Opportunities for Students with Disabilities in Public Charter Schools, authored by Lauren Morando Rihm and Paul ONeill of the newly - formed National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools, outlines the federal, state, and local laws that govern special education in all public schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disabilities.
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This special report, funded by the USDOE National Initiatives Grant of the Charter Schools Program and administered by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, is a supplement to a series of special education primers, Primers on
Special Education in Charter Schools, created to inform state officials, authorizers and charter school operators about special education in the charter sector.
Hence, his trajectory to his current position as heading up the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, a program of the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools.
The National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools is the only national organization devoted entirely to ensuring that students with disabilities have ready access to charter schools that are prepared to help them thrive, and we have noticed that most articles mentioning students with disabilities seem less focused on the students themselves than on using those students as a tool to criticize charter schools.
Lauren Morando Rhim is cofounder and executive director of the National Center for
Special Education in Charter Schools, which is currently incubating the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative to build charter schools» capacity to serve students with disabilities in Newark and Camden.
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Not exact matches
The measure also would require
charters — publicly funded but privately managed
schools — to enroll
special -
education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public
schools in their districts.
De Blasio was peppered with questions regarding issues such as
special education,
charter school co-locations, mental health services, and
school space, but the issue of mayoral control as a governance structure was addressed head on only
in limited doses.
Unfortunately,
charter schools and regular public
schools have some information recorded differently
in the New York City database, and these differences cause
charter schools» numbers of
special education and English language learner students to be understated.
Instead, the
special education gap begins
in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to
charter schools.
In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district school
In both cities (especially
in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district school
in Denver), the
special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and
charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district
schools.
In Denver, in 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charter
In Denver,
in 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charter
in 2012 13, the percentage of
special -
education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher
in district schools than in charter
in district
schools than
in charter
in charters.
Nevertheless, the data that we have suggest that, at the time they applied, 11.1 percent of
charter school applicants were participating
in special education.
That is, the analysis quantifies how the percentage of students with IEPs
in charter schools increased between 2008 — 09 and 2009 — 10 due to students being newly classified into
special education, to students with IEPs exiting the sector, and so on.
The overall
special -
education gap does not appear to be heavily influenced by relatively low enrollment of students with severe disabilities
in charter schools.
Only anecdotal evidence has been offered
in support of the claim that
charter schools systematically remove students with disabilities, and little rigorous research has considered the underlying causes of the difference between the percentage of
charter -
school students and district -
school students enrolled
in special education, the so - called «
special education gap.»
With their limited resources and broad mandate to serve all
schools, it's not possible for most of them to roll up their sleeves day
in and day out or to provide full services, like accounting or
special education, to
charter schools.