As I said in my State of the County address, I am eagerly awaiting the day I can stand in the newly constructed visitors» center and
watch local school children's faces as they learn of what took place on the ground they are standing on.»
I missed experiencing the greatest awe - inspiring wonder that nature has to offer because our
local school officials — who felt eclipse
watching was too dangerous for
children and did not want to be held liable in the event of an injury — had issued overly cautious warnings.
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.
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.