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.
This study, commissioned and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, involved a large research team from both CRPE and NCSECS. The authors are grateful to the many teachers, parents, and administrators who took time to share their perspectives and inform our findings. We are grateful for the Gates Foundation’s investment in expanding solutions for students with disabilities, but all errors or omissions are the authors’ alone.
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.
These reports lay out the findings from data collection about special education in both charter and traditional public schools and the implications of that data.
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 document provides a comprehensive list of the best discipline practices to employ in charter schools and a list of the mistakes to avoid.
