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Lake, Robin; Gross, Betheny; Denice, Patrick – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
Responding to concerns that charter schools do not provide equal access to students with disabilities, advocates in districts, states, and courts across the country have sought to improve such access. Adding to these concerns, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that charter schools, on average, serve a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Enrollment Influences
Naylor, Charlie – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2011
Diane Ravitch's book, "The death and life of the great American school system," is an exploration and critique of educational change in the United States since the report "A Nation at Risk" in 1983 and more specifically since the passing of the No Child Left Behind legislation in January, 2002. Arguably, there are several…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Criticism, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
DiBiase, Rebecca Wolf – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2004
Monitoring and evaluating whether a charter school is in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and performing financially, organizationally, and academically requires the authorizer to examine a host of information about an individual school. Some of this information is reported by the school itself; vehicles such as self-reports,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), School Culture, Institutional Evaluation