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Email By Katie Ash (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/) on October 31, 2013 4:42 PM (2013-10-31T16:42:43-05:00) | No comments (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/charterschoice/2013/10 (http://feeds.feedburner.com /ChartersChoice) /officials_in_la_struggle_to_find_fair_ways_to_evaluate_alternative_charters.html#comments) On the heels of a report (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/charterschoice/2013/10 /how_to_measure_the_progress_of_alternative_charters.html) about the difficulties of judging the performance of charter schools that serve "alternative" populations, a real life FOLLOW THIS BLOG 8 Tweet example of such challenges is playing out in Louisiana, reports The Advocate (http://theadvocate.com/news/7444980-123/louisiana-grapples-with-how-to). The story focuses on the Net Charter High School (http://thenetnola.org) in New Orleans, which aims to serve students who have dropped out of school, been in jail, or have children of their own. One student talks about how she began attending Net charter school after failing to graduate at another high school because of chronic absenteeism. She told The Advocate that without Net charter school, she would have simply dropped out. But because the student is graduating in more than four years, under the current system of evaluating the performance of schools, her success is not counted as such, say officials at Net charter school. Under the current system, the graduation rates of these schools are negatively impacted by students who take more than four years total to graduate. The article says that state officials have been quietly working on a solution to how alternative charter schools might be evaluated differently than other schoolS, although the details have yet to be announced. John White, Louisiana's state schools chief, has acknowledged that the current system does not work for alternative schools, but he hasn't yet outlined a plan for a change in the evaluation formula, says the article. (http://feedburner.google.com /fb/a/mailverify?uri=ChartersChoice&loc=en_US) RECENT ENTRIES La. 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