Our partners at the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) have launched a monthly blog series to promote best practices that support access and success for students with disabilities who attend charter schools.
For its inaugural best practices blog post, NCSECS profiled the CHIME Institute in Los Angeles, California to explore how the charter school “has evolved to support and ensure that ALL students with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of their challenges, have equal access to quality programs in their school through a full continuum of services.” Please click here to view the full case study of the CHIME Institute. Looking at best practices developed by individual schools, as well as charter school networks, is important to address the educational access and equity needs of students with disabilities. And research is showing that these efforts are getting results: a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University found that charter schools in urban areas help their students with disabilities make learning gains equivalent to nine additional instructional days in math and 13 in reading. The charter school movement must continue to research and innovate new ways so serve students with disabilities to expand these learning gains.
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