#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL

If we work to fully integrate and equally fund our public schools, and remove the voucher system, we will see a positive impact on our society at large.

But the Memphis Scholars network was also failing to meet other financial, governance and academic requirements, the state-run district found. That included neglecting to provide special-education services to students at two of its schools for three months this year, a violation of state and federal law.

The authors of new research on how U.S. charter schools are serving children with disabilities say their findings should alarm state education leaders, the agencies that authorize the independent public schools and nonprofit organizations that support them.

To date, the report said, charter schools have failed to “consistently address the needs of students with disabilities or, perhaps more importantly, close the gap in educational outcomes between students with disabilities and their peers.”

Segregation is reintroduced when charter schools like Lashon Academy serve different demographic groups than neighboring public schools.

Two main factors are driving the increase: the end of most court oversight that required school districts to create integrated schools, and policies that favor school choice and parental preference.

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation is a growing problem in U.S. schools—and charters are a big reason why.

It is well known that Success Academy used to not have a very high percent of students requiring special education services. My sense was that Success Academy did not want many students requiring special education services because those students would require attention which could take away resources from their test prep gaming system.

Most objectionable is the false hope charters hold out to parents of something special, an American disease of looking for an advantage over others. If charters did — although they don’t — offer a superior education, all students would be entitled to that level of learning. “Separate but equal” is unconstitutional under the facts of Brown v. Board of Education and “separate but unequal” is even more so.

Paula Noonan breaks down how school choice. charters, and vouchers exacerbate school segregation.

SC chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group best known for opposing LGBTQ rights, pushing for the removal of library books, & fighting racially inclusive curriculum starting their own charter school w/ taxpayer money

One of the parents behind the claims includes Shari Alspach, who said her son, Kayden Matthews, was subjected to racist language and bullying at Tulsa Honor Academy. The abuse got so bad that she unrolled her son earlier this week.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Hearings and Appeals has ruled that Cardinal Charter Academy in Cary engaged in illegal, retaliatory actions when it fired a math teacher who made “protected disclosures,” claiming the school did not provide students with the special education services their Individual Education Plans required.

Opponents, on the other hand, say religious charters would undermine one of America’s founding principles: that government funds should not endorse any one faith over another. They also worry that religious charters will discriminate against people of other faiths and LGBTQ students in ways that would be patently illegal for public schools.

An OCR investigation found significant underreporting of restraint and seclusion at Spectrum Academy, a charter program serving students with autism.