Report Finds NYC Charter Schools Enroll Less High-Needs Students

The New York Post (5/2, Gonen, 476K) says the New York City Charter School Center released its first "State of the Sector" report that shows charter schools "outperformed traditional public schools last year in every grade from 3 to 8 in math, and in every tested grade, except fifth, in English." But the report notes that "less than a third of the city's 136 charter schools enroll as many high-poverty and special-education students as their districts do, and just 4 percent of charter schools serve as many English Language Learners. It's the first time some of the critical components have come from the charter world itself."