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Friday, May 28, 2004


Charter School Loses Charter. That's Accountability.
Central Michigan University, chartering authority for the Walter French Academy in Lansing, announced it will yank the charter for the K-12 school. Without a charter, the school will have to close.

The university cited financial, academic, and management woes at the academy. The closure is a blow to the families involved, of course; some of the students had been expelled from other schools, and turned to the academy for help.

Is this failure an indictment of charter schools as a whole? Hardly. The revocation is a warning to other charter schools: get things right, or we close you down.

And the last time that happened to a government-run school was ... when?

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