Seven TX charter schools that lost charter are still open for business.

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1. That happens.

Nobody closes them sometimes. Often the credits are still accepted so it doesn't really matter. It doesn't have to be charters.

North Forest lost its accreditation. It was a public school district that many continued to defend, even though it had no authority to issue diplomas or credits for a while. It fought to resist dissolution, but finally the TEA managed to dispose of it. It's part of the Houston ISD now.

Not much of an outcry over North Forest's issuing credits that might not be accepted elsewhere or issue diplomas that no college or university needed to honor.