Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by mratzloff on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:31PM
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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/SB100014240527023033792045774770...
Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by ThomPete on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:46PM
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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.
Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by mratzloff on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:57PM
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You're correct, but that's not what I did.
Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by ThomPete on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:12PM
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Of course it is. Otherwise your point is trivial. Some schools don't live up to their obligation. No shit.
Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by mratzloff on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:30PM
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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.
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/