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Charter School Proponents Focus On Accountability In Word If Not In Deed

First Posted: 12/20/11 09:02 AM ET Updated: 12/20/11 09:11 AM ET

The most recent call to close underperforming charter schools came not from a teachers' union or a school district, but from a charter-school trade association.

On Thursday, the California Charter Schools Association trumpeted its call for districts to discontinue 10 charter schools the group identified as culprits of "consistent academic underperformance."

"If you look at this in the longer term, you see this as increasing of the kind of accountability that will result in closures and charter schools understanding ... there's a level of accountability within the movement," Jed Wallace, president and CEO of the CCSA, told The Huffington Post.

And it's not just happening in California, the first state with a charter-school association to