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.
Not exact matches
For example, many
charter schools face stonewalling techniques when they request the local Committee on
Special Education come and evaluate students who may be
in need of an IEP.
Charter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Edu
Charter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue
facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Edu
charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with
special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Edu
special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing
in the NYC Department of
Education's Committees for
Special Edu
Special Education.
In addition to our other work, we are currently in the process of pulling together what we call our Equity Coalition, an advisory body comprised of leaders from across the special education and charter school sectors, who will help us wrestle with the most challenging issues we face and lend their collective expertise to solving the
In addition to our other work, we are currently
in the process of pulling together what we call our Equity Coalition, an advisory body comprised of leaders from across the special education and charter school sectors, who will help us wrestle with the most challenging issues we face and lend their collective expertise to solving the
in the process of pulling together what we call our Equity Coalition, an advisory body comprised of leaders from across the
special education and
charter school sectors, who will help us wrestle with the most challenging issues we
face and lend their collective expertise to solving them.
In this role, Michelle works with members to advocate for critical issues
facing charter schools, including new
school authorization,
charter renewal, facilities, and
special education.
Boston parent Karen Kast - McBride put a human
face on the statistics, describing how a
charter school suddenly lost interest
in her daughter's application when they learned she was being evaluated for
special education services.
In interviewing parents who had experience with enrolling a special education student in a charter school and faced exclusionary practices in the early years of the RSD, Marcell found that parents perceive certain charter schools with an emphasis on college preparation or STEM as not «disability friendly» and do not attempt to enroll their students (2010
In interviewing parents who had experience with enrolling a
special education student
in a charter school and faced exclusionary practices in the early years of the RSD, Marcell found that parents perceive certain charter schools with an emphasis on college preparation or STEM as not «disability friendly» and do not attempt to enroll their students (2010
in a
charter school and
faced exclusionary practices
in the early years of the RSD, Marcell found that parents perceive certain charter schools with an emphasis on college preparation or STEM as not «disability friendly» and do not attempt to enroll their students (2010
in the early years of the RSD, Marcell found that parents perceive certain
charter schools with an emphasis on college preparation or STEM as not «disability friendly» and do not attempt to enroll their students (2010).
The evolution that transformed New Orleans» public
schools into an entirely choice - based structure demands that many
charter schools and other
schools of choice that may have previously engaged
in exclusionary practices toward
special education students (Wolf, 2011) must now serve students across the spectrum of academic and developmental abilities while still
facing the pressures of demonstrating progress
in a struggling
school system.