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In the 2013 to 2014 school year, charter schools disciplined students with disabilities twice as often as their peers, with 12.3% of students with disabilities receiving suspension, compared to about 5.9% of students without disabilities. In traditional public schools, about 11.6% of students with disabilities had been suspended, compared to 4.8% of those without disabilities during the same school year.
These findings were reported in “Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection 2013–2014” by Lauren Morando Rhim and Shaini Kothari with the National Center for . . .
