As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut
tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx
children including fewer
children with disabilities, emerging
bilingual children, and
children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.
All three school choice programs
tend to have a lower percentage of
children with disabilities and emerging
bilingual students (ELL) when compared to their local school district averages.
«Research shows that younger
children have a superior ability to learn a second language and that
bilingual students
tend to outperform their monolingual peers.»
In my report with Kenny Feder, «Choice Watch,» over at CT Voices for
Children, we reported that charter schools in CT tend to have smaller proportions of emerging bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school di
Children, we reported that charter schools in CT
tend to have smaller proportions of emerging
bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school di
children and
children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school di
children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school districts.