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
|
|
 |
|
|
Download: 
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0311.pdf
This report finds that there currently is insufficient data about the performance, parental satisfaction, parental involvement or school climate in charter schools managed by EMOs. The GAO authors discovered that all but one study of EMO effectiveness suffered from methodological problems, such as incomplete data or failure to study results over a sufficient period of time.
Date: 2002
Source: United States General Accounting Office
|
