Charter school leaders seek exemptions from state
Last Modified: Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 11:41 p.m.
THIBODAUX — The MAX Charter School in Thibodaux, deemed “academically unacceptable” last month by the state, is seeking exemptions from certain achievement requirements because almost all of its students have dyslexia or other learning disabilities.
And the school’s new director, Linda Musson, is redoubling efforts to focus on student reading. The MAX school is public and open to all applicants. But almost all of the school’s 106 students — about 50 each from Lafourche and Terrebonne, with the remainder from four neighboring parishes — have dyslexia or similar language-related learning disorders.
Such students have trouble with reading, writing, spelling and pronunciation.
That causes problems with state tests, administrators say. Fourth- and eighth-grade students