Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. But that wasn’t a thing then.
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