Advocates for Children has released a new report detailing NYC charter operators' wholesale violations of state and federal laws governing the treatment of children in school.
This will come as no surprise for those who have worked in the "no excuses" testing camps or for parents whose children have mistreated there.
For policy elites, there is no longer any way to deny the immoral and illegal rules that govern these paternalistic hellholes that state and federal governments still embrace as the neo-eugenic solution to the problem of being black, brown, and poor children in America.
Major findings of the Report:
This will come as no surprise for those who have worked in the "no excuses" testing camps or for parents whose children have mistreated there.
For policy elites, there is no longer any way to deny the immoral and illegal rules that govern these paternalistic hellholes that state and federal governments still embrace as the neo-eugenic solution to the problem of being black, brown, and poor children in America.
Major findings of the Report:
1.
107 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed permit suspension or expulsion as a penalty for any of the
infractions listed in the discipline policy, no matter how minor the infraction. By contrast, the New York City Department of Education’s
(DOE) Discipline Code aligns infractions with penalties, limiting suspension to
certain violations and prohibiting expulsion for all students under age 17 and
for all students with disabilities.
2.
82 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed permit suspension or expulsion as a penalty for lateness,
absence, or cutting class, in violation of state law.
3.
133 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include the right to written notice of a suspension prior to the suspension taking place, in violation of
state law.
4.
36 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include an opportunity to be heard prior to a short-term
suspension, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, New
York State Constitution, and state law.
5.
25 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include the right to a hearing prior to a long-term
suspension, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, New
York State Constitution, and state law.
6.
59 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include the right to appeal charter school suspensions or expulsions, even though state law
establishes a distinct process for charter school appeals.
7.
36 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include any additional procedures for suspending or
expelling students with disabilities, in violation
of federal and state law.
8.
52 of the 164 NYC charter school discipline
policies we reviewed fail to include the right to alternative instruction during the full suspension period, in violation of state law.
While charter schools should be able to discipline their students, they must uphold the rights of their students and provide them with a fair discipline process. The Charter Schools Act requires charter school authorizers to ensure that charter applications include discipline policies and procedures that comport with the law.7 Yet, all three authorizers of New York City charter schools have approved charters for schools that have legally inadequate discipline policies.
I worked at a KIPP school. (Not in NYC) None of the info in this blog is a surprise to me. Charter schools are sweatshops. Lastly, I am so sick of the "Charter schools are public schools" crap. The stuff that charter schools pull would never be tolerated in a traditional public school.
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