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Advocates and superintendents tell committee IEPs and attendance often fail students in cyber charters
Summary
Testimony and Q&A focused on special-education implementation, attendance verification and churn: advocates said cyber charters frequently fail to implement IEPs and returning students may be behind; district leaders described challenges verifying residency, billing for extracurriculars and tracking churn.
Witnesses at a House Education Committee hearing presented anecdotal and data-based concerns that some students with disabilities do not receive required services in cyber charter settings and that attendance and churn complicate academic oversight.
"Based on intakes to the Education Law Center, we receive a high percentage of cases from cyber charter specifically with regard to students with disabilities who are not having their needs met," Maura McInerney said, describing cases where Individualized Education Program (IEP) services were not implemented or were dropped while a student was enrolled in a cyber charter.
Why it matters: Several witnesses said students with disabilities and those who are behind academically can be disproportionately represented in cyber enrollment, and that returning students sometimes require…
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