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Experts Give Insight On Arizona's Development Of Charter Schools

Arizona has been a leader in the development of charter schools but, as currently constituted, is that a good thing?

The Brookings Institution recently released a paper called “The Uneven Performance of Arizona’s Charter Schools.”

We talked with Matthew Chingos, a senior fellow in government studies at Brookings’ Brown Center on education policy. He was one of the project’s researchers.

We also spoke with Ildi Laczko-Kerr, vice president of academics for the Arizona Charter Schools Association.

And Pearl Chang Esau, president and CEO of Expect More Arizona, talked with us about criteria for ranking schools.

Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.