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Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities. ERIC Digest E609.

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Ahearn, Eileen – 2001

This digest examines the unique nature of public charter schools, explains their obligations to students with disabilities, and presents the results of two federally funded studies of special education in charter schools. It finds wide variations among the 37 states which permit charter schools. The digest stresses the importance of the legal…

Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making, Disabilities