Building Capacity to Provide Quality Special Education Services and Supports: A Toolkit of Emerging Best Practices and Opportunities for Charter Support Organizations

This eight-page toolkit by the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) provides opportunities and best practices for charter school support organizations (CSOs) to successfully educate students with disabilities. The toolkit provides a continuum of supports available to CSOs supporting the needs of students with disabilities, ranging from minimum to intensive supports. The toolkit includes descriptions of key policies and terms related to service students with disabilities (p. 2), examples of CSO supports for students with disabilities that fall along the continuum (pp. 3-5), and a gap analysis tool for CSOs (pp. 5-8).