Report: Strength of charter school laws varies widely by state

Parents and students in some states aren’t getting their money’s worth from their public school system and their state legislature, a new report has found. The Center for Education Reform (CER), a Washington-based education reform advocacy group, ranked each state based on the strength of its charter school laws and found significant disparities. For example, Minnesota had the strongest charter laws in the nation, while Mississippi had the weakest. The group’s report was issued February 13, 2008. For state-by-state law rankings, visit the CER website.