Minneapolis Charter Doesn’t Want Special Needs Students
The Minneapolis School Board closed down Cityview, one of its public schools whose test scores were too low,it replaced Cityview with a charter school, Minneapolis School of Science. The charter school has told the families of 40 children with special needs–children with Down Syndrome and autism–that they are not wanted at the school. Clearly the schools is bouncing these children to improve their test scores.
Is this what “no child left behind” means? Does it mean pushing out the most vulnerable children to inflate the school’s scores?
In a half-minute of Googling, I discovered that the Minneapolis School of Science is part of the chain called
Is this what “no child left behind” means? Does it mean pushing out the most vulnerable children to inflate the school’s scores?
In a half-minute of Googling, I discovered that the Minneapolis School of Science is part of the chain called