Thanks to Beth Hawkins from The 74 for reporting on CLE’s Charter School Equity, Growth, Quality, and Sustainability Study. The center organized its report into sections containing recommendations for three distinct groups: states, charter school authorizers, and school improvement and other organizations. Standards for enrolling students with disabilities, serving them and measuring progress should be built in at every stage of a charter school’s life, the researchers say, from the decision to grant it permission to operate to revocation of its charter if it underperforms.
“The origin of the charter sector was to expand opportunities for kids from marginalized demographics,” says Executive Director Lauren Morando Rhim. “With kids of color and low-income kids, the charter sector has done that. But for kids with disabilities, it has not.”
Comments are closed.