U.S. officials tell state to use same standards to grade charter schools - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

U.S. officials tell state to use same standards to grade charter schools - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Under Pennsylvania law, every charter school is considered its own district. So by using the grade span methodology, about 59 percent of charters made AYP -- a figure that supporters touted, comparing it with the 50 percent of traditional schools that hit the target.

Yet only 37 percent of charters would have made AYP under the individual school method. Delisle ordered Pennsylvania to re-evaluate charter schools' AYP status using that standard by the end of the fall semester.

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