Recommendations from government-sponsored authorizers can help predict whether charter schools flourish or flounder, a study has found.
Wednesday, the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute analyzed 179 charter school applications filed in North Carolina between 2013 and 2017.
The Ohio-based education think tank said it focused on North Carolina because its statewide application process has produced “one of the largest charter school portfolios in the land” since 2011, as officials opened more than 100 charters and closed more than 25 others that struggled. “With funds going away, many schools and districts across the country will be facing a similar situation as the schools in D.C.,” Betty Chang of Education Resource Strategies, a school systems consulting firm, said in the report.
In a statement emailed to The Times, a Department of Education spokesperson pointed to a drop in qualified grant applicants. According to the alliance, enrollment at charters surged by 9% or more than 300,000 students from the 2019-20 to 2022-23 academic years as more parents sought alternatives to struggling public schools during pandemic lockdowns. Over the same period, public school districts lost 1.5 million or 3.5% of their students.
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