Charter schools’ nine lives

Karen Francisco of the Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne) draws on the Policy Matters Ohio report “Avoiding Accountability: How charter operators evade Ohio’s automatic closure law” in this aptly titled piece about charter school accountability. Quoting the report at some length, the article states:

“Since the charter-closure law went into effect in 2008, 20 schools across the state have met closure criteria, and all are currently listed as closed by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE),” according to the new report. “But an investigation of the schools by Policy Matters revealed that eight schools