New Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: How Students With Disabilities Are Faring Please join The Center for Learner Equity (The Center for Learner Equity) to discuss their report Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Findings will focus on enrollment, placement, discipline and specialized schools. A light breakfast will be served. RSVP by February 21 via this Google Form! Tuesday, February 27, 2018 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center, SVC-201 East Capitol St NE & First St SE, Washington, DC 20004 Presenters Opening remarks: Rep. Glenn T. Thompson (R-PA) (invited) Presentation of findings: Lauren Morando Rhim, Executive Director, The Center for Learner Equity Panel Moderator: Christina Samuels, Associate Editor, Education Week Selene Almazan Esq., Legal Director, Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Nat Malkus, Resident Scholar and Deputy Director, Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute Seth Galanter, Senior Director, National Center for Youth Law If you have any questions, or need any accommodation, please email evieunsworth@mckeongrp.com by February 20, 2018.
The Center for Learner Equity welcomes the New Year with a renewed commitment to its mission. Guided by the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and the many other individuals who have fought and continue to fight for civil rights, we, The Center for Learner Equity (The Center for Learner Equity) team, greeted this new year with a renewed, deep commitment to civil rights advocacy.
Together, Cole’s flexibility in curriculum and instruction and its coaching model support the school in balancing and maintaining an inclusive educational model with rigorous learning goals and high expectations.
This post highlights the Center’s Special Education Toolkit which offers a great resource for charter school authorizers.
This report shines a spotlight on the Paramount School of Excellence and the systems and practices it uses to create a learning environment where students with disabilities can thrive.
This report shines a spotlight on Cole High School and the systems and practices it uses to create a learning environment where students with disabilities can thrive.
This report shines a spotlight on the Brooklyn Labratory Charter Schools and the systems and practices they use to create a learning environment where students with disabilities can thrive.
The Center for Learner Equity announces additional new hires, hits the road, and shares resources of interest. In case you missed the announcement, the Council on Parent Attorneys and Advocates, also an The Center for Learner Equity Equity Coalition partner, won a contract from the National Council on Disabilities to develop a research synthesis regarding special education in schools of choice and will be hosting focus groups in St. Petersburg and Miami, Florida.
The Center for Learner Equity (The Center for Learner Equity) is dedicated to ensuring that students with disabilities have equal access to charter schools and that public charter schools are designed and operated to enable all students to succeed.
n response to the President’s nomination of Johnny Collett as Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at the U.S. Department of Education, Lauren Morando Rhim, executive director and co-founder of The Center for Learner Equity released the following statement.