New York City/Geneva Switzerland—Oak Foundation has approved a second grant to The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) in support of their mission to ensure that students with diverse learning needs are able to fully access and thrive in charter schools.
Congratulations to Newark New Jersey’s charter schools, nearly all of which recently recommitted to the Newark Charter Compact. At a ceremony last week, the schools re-signed onto this annual statement of shared principles, vision and collaboration.
Three recent publications highlight some of the key challenges the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools faces as we work to ensure students with disabilities have ready access to charter schools prepared to provide quality special education and related services.
Julia Sass Rubin and Mark Weber of Rutgers University recently published a report (the first of a three part series, with two parts yet to come)[1] that examines enrollment differences between public charter schools and traditional district schools in New Jersey.
Student discipline issues in charter schools have received a burst of attention recently. The December issue of the Atlantic features an article called “How Strict is Too Strict”that looks at the lessons to be learned from New Orleans charter high schools and the strict disciplinary practices they follow.
The mission of the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) is to advocate for students with diverse learning needs to ensure that if they are interested in attending charter schools, they are able to access and thrive in schools designed to enable all students to succeed.
In a recent blog post Parker Baxter of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) made two good points. First, he called out the importance of the new state-by-state report on the health of the charter school movement that was released last week by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools NAPCS).
Charter schools, similar to traditional public schools, will continue to struggle to provide FAPE absent adequate funding. Senator Harkin introduced the IDEA Full Funding Act earlier this week and NCSECSsubmitted the following letter supporting the legislation.
Beginning today in Newark, New Jersey, educators from most of the city’s charter schools are taking part in a two-day training designed to address the needs of students with disabilities in these schools.
Earlier this month, Teach for America convened 1,000 of its core members and alumni in the hills outside of Las Vegas for a Teach for America Educators Conference. The two-day event engaged attendees in discussions, forums, workshops, panels, plenaries, and Ed Talks focused on the most relevant, timely topics in education reform.
