The Cabinet’s Tom Chorneau reports on the release of a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU of Southern California about harmful screening policies at many charter schools in California. The report quotes PA’s Rigel Massaro.
AUGUST 03, 2016
Charter accountability comes back before lawmakers
by Tom Chorneau
(Calif.) The still-lingering tension between traditional public schools and their counterparts in the charter movement will once again draw the legislative spotlight in a hearing scheduled today to consider charter accountability issues. The hearing comes just one day after public-interest attorneys released a damaging report that found one in five charter schools statewide have screening policies that violate state laws requiring charters to admit any student as long as there is room….
…“All the accountability measures that we have for traditional public schools to ensure that they are meeting the needs of our students, particularly our most vulnerable—should apply to all schools that receive public funds,” said Rigel Massaro, staff attorney with Public Advocates, an organization that shared the byline for Monday’s critical charter report with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
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