National Center for Charter School Accountability
NCCSA
The National Center for Charter School Accountability provides research and recommendations on increasing transparency and accountability for charter schools.
Part I: Decline is the first installment of a three-part series report on the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade. It presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures of what was once a promising school reform movement. The report dispels the myth of unmet demand for new schools, identifying under-enrollment as the primary reason for charter school failure.
In The Stories Behind the Statistics: Why a Report on “Large Achievement Gains” in Charter Schools Harms New Orleans’ Black Students, Dr. Kristen Buras, director of the Urban South Grassroots Research Collective and one of the nation’s leading experts on New Orleans schools, takes a hard look at the data behind Tulane University’s glowing report on the city’s all-charter district.
Published by the National Center for Charter School Accountability, a project of the Network for Public Education, this groundbreaking report reveals how shifting metrics, selective reporting, and weak oversight have been used to prop up a false narrative of success—while Black students and families continue to pay the price.
This report challenges every assumption about the so-called “New Orleans miracle.” It’s a must-read for anyone who believes that public education should serve children, not the agenda of billionaire reformers.
Education Week: “So what changed? Politics, according to Burris. “It depends on the legislature. Charter schools have become a cause of the Republican Party,” she said. When Montana had a governor who was a Democrat, the state “rejected charter schools,”
Colorado Skies Academy, a Centennial-based charter school with a focus on aviation and aerospace education, abruptly announced its closure on Friday, just 16 days before the start of the school year. The announcement, which came in an email on Friday at 8:17 p.m., leaves parents scrambling to find alternative schools for their children.
The Progressive: The first installment of a new report, titled “Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment, and Cost,” by the National Center for Charter School Accountability (NCCSA) lays bare a system in decline. Beneath the rhetoric of “choice” and “opportunity,” a harsh reality has emerged: a sector in retreat, propped up by unchecked federal funding and powerful lobbying interests.
