http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/16280393.htm
Ohio's legislature has approved a bill that includes a provision to close chronically poor performing charter schools. A school would be shut down in July 2008 if it had grades K-3 and had been in academic emergency for four consecutive years; had grades 4-9 and had been in academic emergency for three consecutive years and showed less than one year of growth in either reading or math for two of those years; or had grades 10-12 and had been in academic emergency for three consecutive years and showed less than two years of growth in reading or math for two of those years. A charter that closed could not be reopened. The bill exempts dropout recovery charter schools from the closure sanction, but directs the Ohio Board of Education to make recommendations for performance standards for them. Ohio Rep. Tom Raga, the bill's sponsor, said these schools were not included because "their mission is different" from that of other charter schools.
Source: Akron Beacon Journal
Date: 12/20/2006
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