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. Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.
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