CPS cracks down on underperforming charters [View all]
Source: Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Public Schools board indicated it plans to place more scrutiny on the academic and financial performance of charter schools, approving plans Wednesday to gradually close two charters and warning six others that they'll have to shape up or face the same fate.
Critics have long charged that CPS fails to hold charters to account for meeting state standards, even as neighborhood schools are closed or overhauled each year for poor academic performance. That criticism has been especially acute this year as the district plans to close an untold number of schools it says are underused.
Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said the newly instituted "warning list," which includes six charter schools, will allow officials "an opportunity to look at charter school performance on an annual basis and to act immediately if a charter school is not performing, rather than to wait for a renewal cycle."
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