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These hybrid schools are blowing up the public education model

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How Do D.C.’s Charter Schools Serve Special Needs Students?

Washington, D.C.’s public schools serve one of the highest percentages of special needs populations in the country. The nation’s capital has long had neglected special education facilities and trouble funding the more expensive services that this population requires. As a result, a few charter schools have opened up in the District to serve the needs [...]

Elaine Meyer | Jun 11, 2009 | Comments 1

Interactive - The Charter Explosion

Track the dramatic expansion of charter schools across the U.S. and trace the major factors in this important trend, with our interactive map and timeline.
Reporting Education -- Through the Charter Lens

Since early 2009, the Columbia News21 team took notebooks, cameras and curiosities to places such as New Orleans, the Twin Cities, Newark, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to explore the new marketplace of hybrid, public-private schools.
The result is this web site -- a deeply reported, richly multimedia and interactive web site, produced by a dozen Columbia journalism fellows, their editors and a group of new media producers.
Travel History with Our Interactive Timelines

Learn how Catholic school education and American Indian school programs have developed since the country's founding, in our clickable multimedia timelines.
Watch Storm's Impact on New Orleans Schools
National Charter Schools Conference Coverage

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b85ec06033" >National Charter School Conference Coverage</a>
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