Advocates Seek Revisions in Many Charter Laws

By Drew Lindsay

Charter school advocates are pushing to rewrite recently minted laws in at least half of the 20 states that have embraced the increasingly popular movement.

Treating states' original charter school laws as rough drafts, some legislators are proposing what amount to technical fixes. Others are hoping to get what they didn't get the first time around: an expansive law that boosts the number of charter schools in the state.

In California, at least 10 bills have been introduced to revamp that state's 1992 law, including a proposal to raise or lift the law's limit...