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.ed.gov/pubs/chartimpact/
This document is one in a series of studies from the National Study of Charter Schools, a four-year national research effort to document and analyze the charter school movement. The impact study is based on research on 49 districts in 5 states--Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Michigan. The operational and educational changes in districts that administrators attribute to local charter schools are examined.
Date: 2001
Source: United States Department of Education
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