The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing some California charter schools of operating illegally by excluding some students. Reporter David Haldane has more…
More than 20 percent of California’s roughly 1,200 charter schools maintain exclusionary enrollment policies illegally preventing thousands of students from attending.
That according to a new report by the ACLU and Public Advocates Inc., a nonprofit law firm with offices in San Francisco and Sacramento.
The report singles out a number of charters, including two in San Bernardino County, as examples. The Grove School in Redlands, according to the report, excludes students by expelling them when their grades fall below standard. And ASA Charter in San Bernardino improperly requires proof of citizenship or legal immigration status.
Bottom line, the report says: vulnerable students are being deprived of educational opportunities. The prescription: administrators and authorizers should stop it, and parents should complain about it.
https://www.aclusocal.org/unequal-access/
