[cpdiii]

The reason that you have a Charter School is the group of students you are dealing with are already failing the standards of success as defined by the local school boards. This article compares them against the average of all schools. A fair comparison would be to compare this group against past groups that were failing and then continued to go to school in the normal public school system.

As Samuel Clemens said, "There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians!"

[luckystarmom]

Some charters are for kids failing, and some are for schools that are failing teaching regular kids.

As someone pointed out earlier, if a charter school fails it closes. Regular public schools can fail and still be kept open.

If parents keep on selecting a certain charter school, then maybe the parents know something that the test scores are showing. Maybe their kid has dyslexia, and will always do poor on reading tests. However at the charter school, he can still participate in other activities.

I love school choice!!!! The more choices the better.