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education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …