Charter Schools Discourage Students With Disabilities, U.S. Study Says

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Charter Schools Discourage Students With Disabilities, U.S. Study Says Advocates, lobbyists and celebrities including Bill Cosby are rubbing shoulders in Minneapolis this week to celebrate 20 years of the charter school movement. But a report released late Tuesday confirms a flaw that charter critics have raised over the last two decades: charter schools don't enroll students with disabilities at the same rate as traditional public schools, despite federal laws that require all publicly funded schools to serve disabled students. Attorney Blasts College's Tuition Break For Undocumented Immigrants 6th Grader Says Teacher Duct Taped Him To Chair U.S. Students Can't Explain Evidence For Correct Science Results Court Denies Human Rights Law To New York Students Students Too Poor For Their Own Graduation Helped By Community BLOG POSTS Richard Buery: Let Education Reform Blossom in New York Just weeks after President Obama awarded New York State a reform-friendly waiver to onerous federal "No Child Left Behind" education rules, for-profit education firms are threatening to strangle the new reforms in the crib. David Karpf: UVA Board's Lazy Business Sense They've called for a leap into online learning, but demonstrate no understanding of that field. They use the popular language of disruption theory without understanding any of its mechanisms. This would make a good comedy if we were viewing it in the distant past. Instead it's a tragedy. Sarah Carr: Reforming the Way We Write About Reform, Education and More Journalists should strive to ensure they don't unthinkingly support a political agenda through the appropriation of its rhetoric. But as the debate surrounding education grows more heated, I worry that we all are missing the point when it comes to our words. Gaston Caperton: Don't Forget Ed! Experts and journalists repeatedly tell us that the coming election will be determined by economic issues. As true as that might be, our economy simply will not grow if we don't educate our kids. C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: A Student's View "I think it is important for universities to set benchmarks for test scores for admission. But once a person passes the benchmark, more emphasis should be put into evaluating a person's experience, and whether he/she would be a good fit for the field."

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