Ohio has one of the most stringent academic “death penalties” in the country for our charter schools… Of course the same rules don’t apply to district schools, which have virtually unlimited opportunity to remain open and seek improvement, regardless of whether they actually do…. Thirty-nine district schools in Ohio were awarded SIG funds. If the same closure rules applied to district schools as charters, 11 of these schools would have been told by the state to close their doors at the end of the 2009-10 school year because of perennial poor performance. Read the rest here.
