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New Study: Are Charters beacons of opportunity for Special Needs Students?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 3 comments

The extent to which special student populations (ELL, Special Education and Economically Disadvantaged) gain access to charter schools is understudied. The new study Separate and Unequal?: The Problematic Segregation of Special Populations in Charter Schools Relative to Traditional Public Schools utilizes state, district, and local level data to understand the enrollment of high-need special populations in charter schools compared with non-charter public schools. Vasquez

Photo Essay: This Newcomer School is Lovely

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 2 comments

There has been allot of hullaballoo about young people crossing the US border trying to reunite with their family here in the United States. Teachers, our nation’s first responders, as they always have been, are involved in the education of our immigrant students. Dr. Pei Ling Lee wrote in her UT Austin dissertation entitled Recent High School Immigrants’ Program Placement and

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ELs: Transformational power of policy, access, and equality

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

The New York Times wrote yesterday in Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South The states with the highest growth in the Latino population over the last decade are in the South, which is also absorbing an influx of people of all races moving in from other parts of the country. This figure from the Urban Institute exhibits the rapid