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You combined two very important points in #3. For instance, how often do charter schools enroll special education students?

ThomPete 11y ago
Are Charter Schools Required to Provide Services to Students with Disabilities? Yes. The responsibility to make a free appropriate public education (FAPE) available to all students with disabilities applies to ALL public schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).9 Charter schools are public schools; therefore, they bear the same responsibility. Who is actually responsible for ensuring that special education services are available to students with disabilities in a charter school? The answer depends on how the charter school is legally identified in the state. If a charter school is considered to be an independent Local Education Agency (LEA) under its state’s law, that charter school bears the exact same legal requirements for providing special education services as any other LEA (or district). If a charter school is considered part of an existing LEA, the LEA (or district) retains most or all of the responsibility for special education in the charter school. The charter school is considered a school within that LEA and is responsible for following LEA policy. http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/charters/ http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/charters/
- mratzloff 11y ago
  Dig deeper and you will find that while this is the law, it is not necessarily reality. Hence why I structured the question the way I did rather than focusing on the legal requirement. A new government report shows that charter schools are not enrolling as high a portion of special-education students as traditional public schools, despite federal laws mandating that publicly financed schools run by private entities take almost every disabled student seeking to enroll. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303379204577477003893836734 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023033792045774770...
  - ThomPete 11y ago
    There are many things that aren't reality when you dig deeper. Public schools are no different. Again. Trying to make charter schools the bad schools in defence of the public shools is simply absurd.
    - mratzloff 11y ago
      You're correct, but that's not what I did.
      - ThomPete 11y ago
        Of course it is. Otherwise your point is trivial. Some schools don't live up to their obligation. No shit.
        mratzloff 11y ago
        I'm not sure what your comment added to the discussion. Between this thread and your overall comment history, you strike me as a very argumentative person. When it is a nationwide difference it is not just "some" schools; it is systemic. That doesn't make charter schools the bad guys. That doesn't make public schools the good guys. It does, however, mean that this is a complex issue and charter schools are competing on unequal footing in at least one respect.

ThomPete 11y ago

Are Charter Schools Required to Provide Services to Students with Disabilities? Yes. The responsibility to make a free appropriate public education (FAPE) available to all students with disabilities applies to ALL public schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).9 Charter schools are public schools; therefore, they bear the same responsibility. Who is actually responsible for ensuring that special education services are available to students with disabilities in a charter school? The answer depends on how the charter school is legally identified in the state. If a charter school is considered to be an independent Local Education Agency (LEA) under its state’s law, that charter school bears the exact same legal requirements for providing special education services as any other LEA (or district). If a charter school is considered part of an existing LEA, the LEA (or district) retains most or all of the responsibility for special education in the charter school. The charter school is considered a school within that LEA and is responsible for following LEA policy. http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/charters/ http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/charters/

mratzloff 11y ago
Dig deeper and you will find that while this is the law, it is not necessarily reality. Hence why I structured the question the way I did rather than focusing on the legal requirement. A new government report shows that charter schools are not enrolling as high a portion of special-education students as traditional public schools, despite federal laws mandating that publicly financed schools run by private entities take almost every disabled student seeking to enroll. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303379204577477003893836734 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023033792045774770...
- ThomPete 11y ago
  There are many things that aren't reality when you dig deeper. Public schools are no different. Again. Trying to make charter schools the bad schools in defence of the public shools is simply absurd.
  - mratzloff 11y ago
    You're correct, but that's not what I did.
    - ThomPete 11y ago
      Of course it is. Otherwise your point is trivial. Some schools don't live up to their obligation. No shit.
      - mratzloff 11y ago
        I'm not sure what your comment added to the discussion. Between this thread and your overall comment history, you strike me as a very argumentative person. When it is a nationwide difference it is not just "some" schools; it is systemic. That doesn't make charter schools the bad guys. That doesn't make public schools the good guys. It does, however, mean that this is a complex issue and charter schools are competing on unequal footing in at least one respect.