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Friday, April 1, 2011

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A new study by Western Michigan University researchers is the second study I’ve written about this school year that has found the KIPP network of charter schools enrolls a smaller proportion of English-language learners and special education students than the school districts they draw from.

During the 2007-08 school year, the new study found that 11.5 percent of KIPP students were ELLs, compared with 19.2 percent of students in their local school districts. The numbers for