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Carolyn McCarthy: “One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with…”

On the recordMay 15, 2012
One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with disabilities or special needs, which obviously is a burden onto our public schools because they bring down the test scores and everything.
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Carolyn McCarthy
New York

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McCarthy discusses the impact of charter schools on public schools regarding students with disabilities.

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