The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools issued a report this week about the health of the country’s charter school sector. It found that the performance of Ohio’s charter schools continues to lag national trends. Ohio charter school students showed much worse academic growth than their peers in traditional public schools.

The group offers a number of policy recommendations for Ohio:

“To better support the growth of high-quality public charter schools, we recommend that the state change its law to further strengthen its accountability policies by improving the charter school approval process, charter school oversight, and the charter school renewal and closure process and provide more equitable funding and facilities support to charters. We also encourage the state to ensure that authorizers are closing chronically low-performing charters and to shut down low-performing authorizers.”

You can read the Alliance’s assessment of Ohio’s charter schools here.