How are Washington's charter public schools held accountable?
Charter schools are public schools that are granted additional autonomy in return for additional accountability. They must:
- Comply with most of the same accountability, oversight, and transparency laws applicable to traditional public schools
- Be approved through a rigorous application process to assure the highest-quality schools
- Be overseen by a local school board or a state commission
- Demonstrate success and high-performance
- Be reauthorized after five years and can be closed for poor performance.
- Submit to the most important and direct form of local control –keeping parents and students satisfied.