Assembly Bill 84 is a direct threat to students with disabilities

Assembly Bill 84 is a direct threat to students with disabilities

Assembly Bill 84 (AB 84) is being framed as a charter school reform bill, but its implications for students with disabilities are dangerously overlooked. This bill targets non-classroom-based (NCB) public charter schools—schools like ours that provide flexible, personalized learning models—and proposes to slash their funding by up to 30%. Supporters of AB 84 argue that special education funding won’t be touched. But this narrow and misleading cl…