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Low-scoring charters to face revocation
- 09-15-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The State Board of Education moved closer Tuesday to adopting regulations giving it authority to put the lowest performing charter schools out of business. Under the latest (and likely the final) proposal, the Board would consider revoking the charter of a school whose API scores were in the bottom 10 percent of schools statewide two straight years and that had failed to raise its API score at least 50 points over the previous three years. (A charter school would have to have been operating at least five years.) Revocation wouldn’t be automatic; the charter school could make a case to the Board to justify staying open. The Board would likely exclude dropout-prevention charters serving at-risk teens, for example. But the burden would be on the school to change the Board’s mind. (more…)
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