Twelve studies find that overall gains in charter schools are larger than other public schools; four find charter schools’ gains higher in certain significant categories of schools; six find comparable gains; and, four find that charter schools’ overall gains lagged behind traditional schools.
Source: Charter School Achievement: What We Know, July 2005 Update
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http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/annualreport00.pdf
The first 14 of Massachusetts' charter schools received their second five-year charters during the 1999-2000 school year. As part of the renewal process, the Board of Education hired SchoolWorks, an independent consulting firm, to send a team of inspectors into each school to assess progress toward key objectives, including demonstrated student achievement and organizational and fiscal stability. The inspectors prepared a renewal inspection report on each school. This review summarizes the teams' observations by subject; it is not a statistical or scientific analysis but an independent presentation of the information we deemed most likely to be useful to others in the field.
Date: 2000
Source: Pioneer Institute
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