Charter schools are businesses. The failure rate for start up businesses is much greater than for charter schools. Some schools should close because they fail to find an appropriate facility, they fail to achieve their teaching and learning goals, or they have a governance problem that can not be overcome. There are many school districts that should face the same fate but because they operate as monopolies they remain open. I am not advocating the closure of schools, but I do believe that survival of the fitest is a reasonable assumption.
BTW I have served on the boards of both successful and failed charter schools and it is the chemistry (or biology), which is difficult to predetermine, that enables their success or failure.
DB Bearden
Posted as a reply to:
Opening of schools by Robert Kalb
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