October 14, 2024
Parents want to know if they can depend on a school being there not only when their children start but also when they finish. Based on a marketplace model with fewer regulations, the charter school sector is far more unstable than local public schools.
While the fate of each school cannot be predicted, we can show trends.
Doomed to Fail: An analysis of charter school closures from 1998-2022 uses data from the Common Core of Data, the primary database on non-private elementary and secondary education in the United States, to determine charter school closure rates and the number of students affected when closures occur. The report analyzes charter school closures from 2022 to 2024 to determine the reasons why schools close and how much notice families receive.
Charter schools come with no guarantees. And, as this report shows, in far too many cases, these schools were doomed to fail from the very start.
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Read the Executive Summary here.
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In the News
AP NEWS: New Report Reveals Startling Rates of Charter School Failures
Public News Service: Report: 1 in 3 Michigan charter schools fails
PR Newswire: New Report Reveals Startling Rates of Charter School Failures
K12Dive.com: More than 25 percent of charters shutter within 5 years
Public News Service: The financial landscape of Ohio’s charter schools
Texas AFT: ‘Doomed to Fail’: New Report Shows How Charter School Churn Harms Students They Purported to Help
