BREAKING: CREDO’s new charter report has NPE asking, “In fact or fallacy?”

An item from the folks at the NPE.

Dear Michael, CREDO’s director and author Margaret Raymond claimed “remarkable” progress for charter school students based on the results of their third national report. Is that claim true, or is it hype? To find out, NPE decided to take a closer look not only at CREDO’s results but at CREDO itself. What we found shocked us. You can read our new report that tells the story of what we found by clicking the image below. ‘In Fact or Fallacy? An In-Depth Critique of the CREDO 2023 National Report’ is an honest, well-researched response to the CREDO report that digs in and unearths the bias in CREDO methodology, reporting methods, and conclusions. NPE also traces the history of CREDO, which is housed in the conservative pro-school choice Hoover Institution, a connection that CREDO no longer reveals. Below you can watch CREDO Director Margaret Raymond, the study’s author, praise Betsy De Vos while acknowledging her own role at Hoover. In our report, we dig into CREDO funding and summarize past critiques by scholars. And we prove that in the past, CREDO referred to the same average results in the growth of test scores as “inconsequential,” “small,” or “possibly the result of error” when the differences of the same size favored public schools. Perhaps most important, we demonstrate the large error in their CMO list, identifying some large low-quality for-profit chains that were left off. Please be sure to read and share our report on social media. It is time for the media and policymakers to ask: Whose interests does CREDO really represent? The public or its funders?  Read our report and decide for yourself. Click here for a short video overview of the report. Then please retweet that summary using this link: https://twitter.com/Network4pubEd/status/1681697230091067392?s=20 Our Tenth Anniversary Conference, with its line-up of outstanding speakers, will be our best and most important conference yet as we gather to fight against the right-wing forces determined to destroy and defund public education and turn it into a marketplace system of unregulated voucher schools, homeschools, online schools and yes, Christian nationalist charter schools. Register for the conference and your discounted hotel reservation here. We meet in Washington, D.C., on October 28 and 29. Please join us. REGISTER TODAY AND RESERVE YOUR DEEPLY DISCOUNTED HOTEL ROOM before they are all taken. Enjoy your summer, and thank you for all that you do! Carol Burris, Executive Director   The Network for Public Education is a 501 (c)(3) organization. You can make a tax deductible donation here. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook.