Under new rules established by the State Board of Education, the state will close charter schools that do not meet performance standards on state tests for two out of three years.
This rule does not apply to district schools but what if it did?
I dug into the data and found that if enacted three years ago and applied to all public schools, the state would have closed 163 district schools, six (6) charter schools and three (3) alternative schools.
These 172 schools have not met growth expectations on state tests AND have not had more than 60 percent of students score proficient on state tests at least twice over the last three years.