Not exact matches
Over 1 in 5
of California's
charter schools have restrictive
admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep
out many students with the greatest academic needs, a report released Monday by the ACLU Foundation
of Southern California and the public interest law firm Public Advocates alleges.
Provided that a school adheres to the laws regarding open
admissions, a
charter school may, through its educational focus, target a particular population
of students with a specific need, such as students with disabilities, English language learners, or students at risk for dropping
out of school.
Even after you take
out gifted magnet programs where students have to meet academic
admissions requirements, students at LA Unified's magnet schools outperformed their peers at independent
charter schools, an LA School Report analysis
of district data found.
It is telling that,
of the hundreds
of students who have graduated from Success Academy elementary - and middle - school
charter programs in New York City, none gained
admission in 2014 or 2015 to the city's highly competitive specialized public high schools, and only six (
out of 54 who took the
admissions test) were admitted in 2016.