States aren't helping secure resources for capital, start-up, or categorical aid. Good accountability systems provide early warnings of trouble. Excessive accountability systems may detract from a school's mission. At-risk students are making achievement gains in charter schools. Public schools are responding to competition and innovations from charter schools.
Charter schools point to important ways to improve and reinvent public education.
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