Charter school producing hoped-for results

Amid the politically charged landscape of Ohio’s charter-school movement, one operator has racked up a record of success with one of the most challenging student age groups: middle-schoolers. Last year, the eighth-graders at Columbus Collegiate Academy's campuses in Franklinton and on the Near East Side outperformed the average proficiency rates for all students in Ohio, rich and poor alike. Eighty-five 85 percent of students at the Franklinton campus were proficient in eighth-grade readin