On average, the funding gap between charter schools and traditional schools is 22 percent, or $1,800 per pupil. The average charter school ends up with a total funding shortfall of nearly half a million dollars.
Source: Charter School Funding: Inequity’s Next Frontier
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Find a Charter School Today
Powered by Google Maps, this website allows users to search by state and city to find individual charter schools across the country. The site provides a zoomable map of all charter schools and provides each school's full address, contact information, grades served, and direct website links.
Green Charter Schools
This website provides resources for environmentally focused charter school developers and operators and profiles charter schools with environment focused educational programs.
Texas Charters, Choice and Performance
This analysis compares the performance of public charter and traditional schools in Texas. It finds that open-enrollment charter students out-perform traditional public school students in grades 6 through 9 in reading/English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics. Students in charters rated under the accountability system for alternative education campuses, which comprise approximately one-half of the charters in the state, generally fare better than their public school peers. In reading/ELA, students at alternative charter campuses performed above traditional alternative education students in grades 8 through 10. In math, students at alternative charter campuses performed above traditional alternative education students in grades 5 and 7 through 10.
Charter School Performance in New Jersey
This study examines charter school performance and the effect of charter competition in New Jersey from 2000 to 2006, focusing on schools with fourth grades. The author finds that while charter schools tend to have lower performance levels than traditional public schools on fourth grade standardized tests, charter performance improves as the schools gain experience.
The Impact of Charter Schools on the Efficiency of Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Michigan
Using over ten years of school-level longitudinal data in Michigan, this paper explores the impact of charter competition on student achievement and tests the hypothesis that competition from charter schools improves the efficiency of traditional public schools. The author finds that charter competition has an increasingly negative impact on student achievement and school efficiency in the state's traditional public schools.
Charter School Outcomes
This edited volume, which examines charter school effectiveness to date, is a compilation of papers presented at a September 2006 conference at the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University. It focuses on teaching and learning; governance, finance, and law; and student achievement. It seeks to offer answers to the following questions: What research designs are best for comparing charter and regular public school performance? Do charter schools receive less funding per student than regular public schools? What do we know about the effects of charter and regular public schools on how children learn? A second volume in this series, Handbook of Research on School Choice, is due for publication in 2008.
Indiana Charter School Conference, February 21-22
The GEO Foundation's Charter School Service Center and the Indiana Charter School Association are hosting the 2008 Indiana Charter School Conference at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. Confirmed speakers include Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews and the National Alliance's President Nelson Smith. In conjunction with the conference, February 18 - 22, 2008 has been declared "Indiana Charter School Week." A number of activities have been scheduled throughout the state to celebrate Indiana charter schools and their impact on the state's public education system.
Policies That Promote Quality Charter Schools: An Education Week Chat
On November 6th, Education Week hosted an online chat with Andrew Rotherham (co-director of Education Sector, a member of the Virginia Board of Education, and board member of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools), Sara Mead (a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation) and Jason Botel (founder of the KIPP Ujima Village Academy). The guests fielded questions from a diverse audience and addressed topics such as teacher retention, local political challenges, state charter legislation, education management organizations, and charter renewals.
Breaking Down Monopolies: Expanding Choice and Competition in Education
This brief argues for greater use of market forces, choice, and competition in public schooling. The authors argue that greater choice need not mean taking the "public" out of "public education," but can mean simply redefining public education as "choice for all" instead of "the same for all."
Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools
This report summarizes new empirical evidence on the achievement impacts of charter schools and voucher programs nationally. The authors find that well-designed voucher and charter programs show promising gains, while few show any evidence of substantial harms to student achievement. They note the important impact policy design has on choice programs: not all charter laws and voucher programs are alike or created equally, and different programs will produce different effects. They call for additional research to help clarify the specific beneficial policy components and to assess a more complete understanding of student outcomes.
National Charter Schools Conference, June 22-25
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools will host the 2008 National Charter Schools Conference from June 22-25 in New Orleans, LA. "Still We Rise: Achieving Academic Excellence at Scale" is the conference theme, reflecting the growth of quality public charter schools across America. The theme has special resonance in New Orleans, which boasts the nation's largest percentage of public charter school enrollment. Register for the conference or apply to sponsor/exhibit at http://www.nationalcharterconference.org. The conference is the largest gathering of charter school operators and proponents in the nation. Geoffrey Canada, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Harlem Children's Zone, will offer the keynote speech. Attendees will learn and share best practices, discuss national and state policy issues, have the opportunity to volunteer at local charter schools, and enjoy special events featuring New Orleans traditions, food and music! Questions? Call 206-463-3344 or e-mail nationalconference@publiccharters.org. Register before April 27 to get the lowest conference rates.
Wisconsin Charter School Conference, April 21-22
The 2008 Wisconsin Charter Schools Conference, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will take place at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison from April 21-22, 2008. Registration, sponsorship and exhibit information will be available soon at the conference website.
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