Ohio is very friendly territory for charter schools.

Governor Kasich loves charter, vouchers, and virtual schools.

But the charters are not doing so well.

Read the following comment and the link with it:

I have been following your work closely since reading your most recent book a few years ago. My local paper, the Akron Beacon Journal, today ran an article analyzing the impact of the new state report card system on public schools, particularly the charter schools. The link is below to the article. The part that jumped out at me was the comments from the vice president of research and accountability for the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools. She claims that the high failure rate of these schools is caused by the special needs of the students (autism, drop-out recovery programs, etc.). She also used the excuse that most of the failing charters are in urban areas, and that geopgraphic location affects those charters. Mobility and the environmentla factor are aso cited as possible causes of low scores in the charters. Clearly she did not get the memo about “no excuses” and “every child can learn” that we hear so much about. Please share this article if you can. Keep up the good work.

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/academic-ratings-for-ohio-charter-schools-likely-to-tank-in-new-scoring-system-1.386455

Remember that charter schools are supposed to be models of innovation and excellence. Public schools are supposed to learn from the charter model.

But look at this:

“Among Ohio’s 612 public school districts, 60 percent would score an “A” on proficiency tests because their children would have at least a 75 percent pass rate. On the other hand, 72 percent of charter schools would receive an “F” for the same measure.”

“For graduation rates, only 7 percent of public school districts would receive an F, but 89 percent of the more than 300 charter schools would receive the state’s worst academic rating.”