After 15 years, track record for Texas charters is mixed

From The Dallas Morning News: Fifteen years into the Texas charter school experiment, some charters have brought impressive innovation to public education, saved dropouts and posted enviable test scores. But on other campuses, kids have languished in poorly run classrooms and taxpayer money has been squandered on shady operations. Despite the wildly varied results, the national charter school movement has gained serious steam over the past year.