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Ask the Experts: Focus on Special Education Oversight

Posted in Accountability, Ask the Experts, Special Education on Nov 13th, 2012

The 2012 edition of NACSA’s Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing provides authorizers with new guidance related to the oversight of special education. Specifically, it says quality authorizers: Enlists expertise and competent leadership for all areas essential to charter school oversight-including, but not limited to, education leadership; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; special education, [...]

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