For example, a 2010 New York state charter
school law requiring charter
schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to
address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter
schools — might mean, if enforced, that a
school in
upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64
Where the
school would be located is one issue — Audubon's
upper grades are already housed in what's considered a temporary location, the old Carrollton courthouse, and the newly approved master plan for New Orleans
schools facilities does not even
address that building, much less provide for a new one.