Abstract: This four-year evaluation of performance by charter schools and their sending districts on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) finds that the state's charter school students are performing as well as, and often better than, their counterparts in regular public schools. Major findings of the study include: in both English Language Arts and Mathematics, at least 30 percent of the charter schools performed statistically significantly higher than their sending districts in each year (except 2001). Higher performance in charter schools was even more prevalent in the racial/ethnic subgroups of African and Hispanic students and low income students. For example, between 32 percent and 46 percent of low income students in charter schools performed significantly higher in English Language Arts assessments than peers in their sending districts each year.
Resource Type: Case Studies/Evaluations Resource Format: PDF File Target Audience: Policy Makers, Researchers Resource Topic: Accountability, Achieving Standards, Assessment, Effectiveness of Charter Schools
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