CER defines strong or moderately effective charter laws as those which support, or are likely to support, at least some significant development of autonomous charter schools. Weak or ineffective laws are those which have not spurred, or are unlikely to spur, significant charter activity. The Colorado waiver authority is given a 3 even though the law does not guarantee it. An agreeable State Board of Education makes the process easy.
Weak laws discourage growth by placing more constraints on the number of charter schools.
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