It's very easy to pull the wool over people's eyes if you don't know the terminology. So one thing that some school districts do is they'll leave certain kids out of the testing. They drag down the scores. So if they leave these kids out one year, the scores go up, and they look like they've done a better job. But they're just removing the low-scoring kids.
School districts have a monopoly of information.
Anything you learn comes from people who are running the district, and they need to be saying they're doing a good job. It's like covering a big corporation and getting all your information from the corporation. Let the public see what they look like. I think reporters have a hard time understanding that there is this tremendous variety of charter schools. You can't take just one school and say it's representative of charter schools.