Choice. Innovation. Impact.
While charter schools are doing well nationally, Michigan charter schools are leading the way. As authorizers, we are proud to say that Michigan is one of ten states nationally showing the best performance among charter schools.
In 2022-23, and with the Council’s expertise and leadership, Michigan authorizers opened new schools and found fresh ways to improve student outcomes, even in the face of lingering pandemic effects. In this report, we capture the numbers, stories, and images of this challenging and rewarding work we do in fulfilling our mission to advance public education. I hope you will read it carefully and then join us in finding ways to reach even higher and do even more.
Annual Report Archive
Advancing Excellence: Michigan’s Model for Authorizer Accountability
MCCSA has continued to lead the nation by fostering an authorizer accountability system that not only includes the MCCSA standards, but also includes the first authorizer accreditation system as well as the Michigan Department of Education Assurance and Verification Visits.
“Advancing Excellence: Michigan’s Model for Authorizer Accountability” reflects a shared pledge to one another, to parents, teachers, and students that quality authorizing is paramount – because Michigan’s children deserve it.
Special Education Services
Meeting the needs of Michigan's special education students is of utmost importance to all schools. So is following the law to ensure equity and opportunity for all.
That is why the state's public charter school authorizers has developed a detailed legal resource to help boost compliance and results across Michigan.
Public Charter Management Companies
On average, CREDO researchers found that network-affiliated public charter schools increase student learning more than self-managed public charter schools. They also observed that all types of “public charter schools are having a positive impact.” Of course, these high-level results can obscure a great deal of variation among individual networks and schools, as well as differences among states.
MI Public Charter Achievement
A study from CREDO — a Stanford-based research group well known for its public charter school research — found that public charter schools in Michigan, and especially Detroit, moderately outperform district schools. The state’s for-profit public charter schools, if anything, perform better than non-profit public charter schools, according to CREDO, and, unlike in most other states, online public charter schools in Michigan do just as well as other schools.