How To Get Chris Christie to Visit Your Charter!
Bruce Baker has an important post about charter school student populations. It turns out that different charter schools have wildly different percentages of students who live in poverty, don't speak English as their first language, or are classified as needing special education services.
Worse, it seems that many of the schools touted as "successes" actually have fewer of these children with special needs in their student bodies:
Worse, it seems that many of the schools touted as "successes" actually have fewer of these children with special needs in their student bodies:
The schools with bars pointing downward have fewer of the kids with special needs; the ones with upward