State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says seven institutions no longer risk losing their ability to open new charter schools in Michigan.
The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Jake Neher has more.
Flanagan told eleven charter school authorizers last year that they must become more transparent and show some academic improvements. Otherwise, he might stop them from opening new charter schools.
Martin Ackley is Flanagan’s spokesperson. He says seven of those institutions have made enough progress to come off the list.
“He feels that those authorizers have made sufficient improvements to the key factors of oversight that he set forth last year,” he says.
Eastern Michigan University, Detroit Public Schools, the Education Achievement Authority, and Highland Park Schools remain on the list of institutions that risk losing their ability to open new charters.