All Welcome to Apply? "Mystery Parent" Initiative Found to Be Cost Effective Diagnostic Tool for Charter Authorizers Concerned about Equity. Promising Practices

Institution	National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS)
Titel	All Welcome to Apply? "Mystery Parent" Initiative Found to Be Cost Effective Diagnostic Tool for Charter Authorizers Concerned about Equity. Promising Practices
Quelle	(2016), (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cost Effectiveness; Equal Education; Educational Legislation; Students with Disabilities; Federal Legislation; Charter Schools; Inclusion; Enrollment; Retailing; Admission Criteria; Best Practices; Quality Control; English Language Learners; Program Descriptions; Parent School Relationship; Elementary Secondary Education; Massachusetts; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Bundesrecht; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Inklusion; Einschulung; Warenwirtschaft; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Qualitätskontrolle; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all public schools must provide a free and appropriate public education to students with disabilities. As such, public charter schools must accept and educate students with disabilities and maintain open enrollment policies, which often include a fair lottery system. Schools must plan for the capacity to meet a range of special education and disability needs. Advising or implying to a parent of a student with a disability or an English language learner that enrollment is not allowed or that the school cannot provide the modifications or accommodations necessary to educate a student is discriminatory and illegal. "Counseling-out" is the practice of subtly, or not so subtly, counseling parents and inappropriately influencing them to not enroll their child in a school because of the student's disability or language and expected needs. Modeled after "mystery" or "secret shopper" services used in retail stores to evaluate customer service and quality control, authorizers in the District of Columbia (DC) and Massachusetts employed a similar tactic to examine how the front line charter school staff answers questions about enrollment. Specifically focused on the populations of students with disabilities and English language learners, and recognizing that parents of these two groups of students may present different scenarios when contacting schools about enrollment, services and needs, DC and Massachusetts elected to "test" the market with a defined Mystery Shopper/Parent Program. The report examines both programs and highlights its best practices. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01