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Collegiate Academies operates six open-enrollment public charter high schools in Louisiana. [1]
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Collegiate Academies operates six open-enrollment public charter high schools in Louisiana. [1]
August 2008: Sci Academy opens in New Orleans East.
April 2011: Interest in Sci Academy exceeds the number of seats available
August 2011: The 2011-2012 school year opens with a new special education program: Essential Skills. This course for scholars with cognitive disabilities attracts the attention of national educators including Doug Lemov, creator of Teach Like a Champion.
June 2012: Sci Academy graduates its first class of seniors. 97% of these students were accepted to a four-year college, and they matriculated to schools across the country, including Amherst College, Colorado College, Louisiana State University, and Wesleyan University.
August 2012: George Washington Carver Collegiate Academy and George Washington Carver Preparatory Academy open.
January 2014: Troy Simon, Sci Academy Class of 2012, introduces First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House College Opportunity Summit.
April 2014: Sci Academy was named the #2 high school in Louisiana by U.S. News & World Report.
In 2013, three Collegiate Academies schools — Sci Academy, George Washington Carver Collegiate, and G.W. Carver Prep — had the highest suspension rates in New Orleans. [2] [3] At Carver Collegiate, 69 percent of its student body were suspended during the 2012-13 academic year; at Carver Prep and Sci Academy, the figures were 61 percent and 58 percent, respectively. [3] [4] The suspension rates led to the Southern Poverty Law Center sending an open letter to Collegiate Academies. [3] Students were sent home for matters as trivial as "laughing too much ... hugging a friend, and most commonly for being 'disrespectful,'" according to The Times-Picayune. [2] Allegations of the treatment of special-education students were particularly startling, including violations of the federal law that 10 suspensions of a special-education student should trigger an immediate meeting. [2]
In 2014, a Better Education Support Team coalition joined more than 30 students and their relatives in filing a complaint against Collegiate Academies that its disciplinary policies were so severe that they bordered on child abuse and violated federal civil rights laws. [5] The plaintiffs asked the U.S. Department of Justice and Education to investigate. [2]
The incidents that led to the complaint led to three students withdrawing and protests. [2] [6] [7] Students created a list of grievances that said, in part: [8]
We get disciplined for anything and everything. We get detentions or suspensions for not walking on the taped lines in the hallway, slouching, for not raising our hands in a straight line. [sic] The teachers and administrators tell us this is because they are preparing us for college. It trains us for the military, orworse [sic], for jail.
In addition, students complained that they lacked textbooks or even a library, and that the material being taught was below grade level. [8]
In 2015, Collegiate Academies were among the New Orleans charter schools subject to a federal judge's landmark New Orleans special education settlement that tightened the state Education Department's oversight and required third-party monitoring. [2] [9]
Louisiana Department of Education issued a notice on January 6, 2016, that George Washington Carver Collegiate had violated a special-education student's rights when the school suspended him for a full month. [9]
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