{"id":8992,"date":"2012-06-20T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:55:21","slug":"federal-report-says-charter-schools-enroll-fewer-students-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/20\/federal-report-says-charter-schools-enroll-fewer-students-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Report Says Charter Schools Enroll Fewer Students With Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A federal report finds charter schools enroll a lower percentage of students with disabilities than district schools.<\/p><\/div>\n

Charter schools enroll fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools, according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report’s conclusions echo our investigative story from last year that found 86 percent of Florida charter schools<\/a> do not enroll any children with profound disabilities — compared to more than half of district schools which\u00a0do.<\/p>\n

The GAO report also found the largest gap was for students with intellectual disabilities. District schools enrolled students with disabilities at a rate nearly twice that of charter schools — though those students are a small percentage of the total student body.<\/p>\n

But charter schools were more likely than district schools to have high percentages of students with disabilities. That’s likely because of schools such as the UCP charter chain in Orlando<\/a> and Tampa’s Pepin Academies<\/a> which specialize in autism or other disabilities.<\/p>\n

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