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Ed Notes Online: NYC and DC Charters Expel Students at Higher Rates Than Public Schools --

Ed Notes Online: NYC and DC Charters Expel Students at Higher Rates Than Public Schools --:


NYC and DC Charters Expel Students at Higher Rates Than Public Schools --

Wait a min -- pub schls can't expel kids.

Holy shit. Even the NY Post is reporting this:

Here it says in NYS, “charter schools set their own suspension rules and don't report expulsion data -- although experts believe thousands of difficult students are dumped every year to public schools.”
This is repeated here: http://insideschools.org/blog/item/1000359-vanishing-students-at-harlem-success
 
Harlem Success also has a high suspension rate -- 15 percent in the 2009-10 school year. (The state report cards do not list expulsions.)

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/charters_nix_of_kids_jXEEhJtQx9eQiGUiD3vInN

Charters 'nix 23%' of kids

 

Boys will be boys, but nonpublic schools are quick to expel average little rascals

  • By ANNIE KARNI
  • Last Updated: 7:32 AM, April 24, 2011
  • Posted: 12:10 AM, April 24, 2011
He called a classmate a "spaghetti noodle" because she was skinny. And he led the "Rubberband Gang" that launched pellets of paper across the classroom. But now sixth-grader Tyrique Royal, 12, is facing expulsion from