Podcast: How Success Academy Charters Violate Their Students’ Rights
Leonie Haimson is host of a weekly radio program on WBAI, a Pacifica radio station. In this podcast, she discusses “How Success Academy Charters Violate...
Category : Discipline and Suspensions
Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy Pays $1.1 Million to Settle with Parents on “Got to Go” List
Gary Rubinstein writes here about a lawsuit filed by parents of children on Success Academy’s “got to go” list. The celebrated charter chain settled for...
Alexandria Millet: The Charter School-to-Prison Pipeline
Alexandria Millet writes in The Progressive about the consequences of the harsh discipline at “no excuses” charter schools. She begins by telling the recent...
Rhode Island: Achievement First Charter School Has One of the Highest Suspension Rates in State
Achievement First is a Connecticut-based charter chain known for its no-excuses style, akin to schools of the late 19th century. Data released by the Rhode...
Colorado: Charter School Principal Suspends Entire High School for Failing to Recite School Pledge
Parents of students at a Colorado charter school filed a federal lawsuit claiming infringement of the atudents’ First Amendment rights after the principal suspended the...
Newark: Charter School Network Accused of Disproportionate Suspensions of Students with Disabilities
No excuses! Newark’s largest charter-school network suspends students with disabilities at a disproportionately high rate, violating their rights, according to a new complaint filed with...
Education Law Center: Leading Newark Charter School Imposes Excessive Discipline on SPED Students
One way that charter schools get high test scores is to get rid of students with low scores. The Education Law Center called out one...
Do You Know Any Students Who Attended “No Excuses” Charter Schools?
I received the following request: A former charter school teacher,who was a strong advocate for the students, currently is working on her PHD. She’s wants...
Why Was a 13-Year-Old Locked Up for Three Days in Bryan, Texas?
Bryan, Texas, has been under investigation by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education because black students are almost four...
GAO Reports That Black Students Receive Disproportionate Discipline
This was posted by Politico Morning Education. I don’t know which outrages me more: 1) the administration’s efforts to link the massacre at...