Massachusetts early voting starts this Monday and one of the most controversial issues on the ballot is whether we should expand the number of Charter Schools. The clear and certain answer is “No.” Sold when first proposed as educational innovation labs with new teaching techniques to be tested at Charters […] Read more »

If Massachusetts Charter Schools and non-Charter Schools had the same rates of high school enrollment decline, we would expect some natural variability between the two systems. That is, if the two systems had the same rate of enrollment declines, sometimes Charters would have a higher rate of high school enrollment […] Read more »

The CRLS Drama Festival entry, The Secret in the Wings, relies as much on an awesome stage and Tech crew as it does on the actors. Everything has to be perfect for Tech to get the stage up in under five minutes. Go over by just one second and the […] Read more »

According to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), charter schools, on average, lose over twice the average number of students between 9th and 12th grades than non-charter schools. A spreadsheet analyzing the data is posted below. Why Charters have such problematic enrollment issues is not clear to […] Read more »