The cracks show in May. Although there’s often plenty to celebrate at the end of the school year, it’s also when the cracks appear in charter school boardrooms. Enrollment numbers that aren’t hitting the target. A leader who’s spent. A budget that worked on paper and didn’t work in practice. A facility decision that’s been sitting on the agenda since November and never quite got resolved. None of that is a failure. It’s data. And the boards that come out of May with real mom