Legal Opinion
Reach Academy for Boys & Girls, Inc. v. Delaware Department of Education
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided January 3, 2014No. C.A. No. 13-1974-LPSPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
Leonard P. Stark, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
This case presents difficult questions arising in what appears to be a unique factual and legal context. The State of Delaware, through its Department of Education and Secretary of Education (“DOE” or “Defendants”), has decided not to renew the charter of Reach Academy for Girls (“Reach”), the only all-girls public charter school in the State of Delaware. In November 2013, DOE concluded that Reach is a “failing” school, based at least in part on standardized test results showing that the performance of Reach students on such tests…
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