Thousands of children, who previously would have automatically gone to special schools, had been «successfully educated with
their peers in mainstream schools,» he added.
Schools Week learned of these three «wishes» following a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) last week that found UTC pupils «perform less well» at age 16 than similar
peers in mainstream schools.
Not exact matches
The campaign will also raise funds for a special education unit
in a
mainstream school in Moldova, to demonstrate that children with complex disabilities can be educated alongside their
peers without disabilities.
But Spady says the Washington law sets the strictest standard of accountability
in the nation: It bars renewal of a
school's five - year charter if its students don't match the performance of their
mainstream peers on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning.
However, students at BIE
schools lag far behind their
peers in mainstream public
schools.
The inequalities of the national digital divide are well known — English language learners (ELLs) are far less likely to have computers and Internet access at home than their
mainstream peers, and they are much less likely to have access to online technology beyond drill - and - skill testing programs
in their
schools.