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.aft.org/edissues/downloads/charterreport02.pdf
This report by one of the nation's teacher unions charges that the majority of existing charter schools have failed to fulfill their promise to bring greater achievement and innovation into the nation's public schools. It concludes that most charter schools fail to raise student achievement compared to traditional district public schools in the same area; fail to bring innovation into the classroom and the public school system at large; sort children by socioeconomic status, and; spend more money on administration and less on instruction than other public schools.
Date: 2002
Source: American Federation of Teachers
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