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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. Ken Campbell, director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010.