NC official will add charter school awards to ‘negative’ report
If you want people to notice a data report, try having a public official object to it.
That’s one lesson from last week’s decision by the N.C. Board of Education to send a charter school report back for revisions after Lt. Gov. Dan Forest complained that it wasn’t positive enough.
“It was certainly not intended to be an advocacy position nor a critique,” Adam Levinson, interim director of the N.C. Office of Charter Schools, told the state’s Charter School Advisory Board on Tuesday.
He said this year’s annual report, which is mandated by the state legislature, has probably gotten more readers than the last five or 10 combined because of the controversy.
“You may want to keep your copy. It may be worth something on eBay,” Levinson quipped to the advisory panel.
He and other state officials stood by the numbers. But Levinson said he’ll look for ways to highlight successes by the independently run charter schools, such as adding a list of awards and accolades they’ve won.
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