The Center’s analysis highlights clear trends in how students with disabilities are accessing and being served by charter schools and offers specific recommendations for improvement.
On Sunday, October 27, the Center received the 2019 NASDSE Martha J. Fields Award of Excellence in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Center is proud to announce the launch of its newly redesigned and rebranded website at www.centerforlearnerequity.org. The revamped website features a streamlined and simplified design, improved accessibility and functionality, and clear and concise content that visualizes some of our work.
This week, The Center for Learner Equity (The Center for Learner Equity) and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) released a report that brings fresh insight into how charter schools are working to improve education for students with disabilities.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) reintroduced the IDEA High Cost Pool Funding Act, innovative legislation to help cover the exceptional costs that can be associated with educating special needs children.
On September 9, The Center awarded education advocate Eileen M. Ahearn the inaugural Eileen M. Ahearn Education Visionary Award for her foresight and commitment to ensuring students with disabilities have the same access to a high quality charter school education as do their peers.
Earlier this month in Nashville, the National Governors Association held a two day convening of Governors’ offices to discuss policies that support equity and collaboration in education.
In her most recent blog post, Wendy Tucker, the Center’s Senior Director of Policy, reflected on the National Governors Association’s two day convening of Governors’ offices in Nashville, TN earlier this month.
As I sat on the stage at the National Charter School Conference in Las Vegas last week, minutes before kicking off our “Special Education Policy: Key Challenges and Opportunities” session, those words from Field of Dreams popped into my head.
This map provides an overview of the funding data for each state as well as more in-depth information on Legal Status, Authorizer Type, and Funding Formula.