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.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecid=134&contentid=252555
This report traces the origins, evolution and impact of Minnesota's pioneering charter school law -- on its own schools, students, and communities and on the development of charter laws in many other states. It also makes seven broad recommendations relevant for policy discussions now going on in other states. They include: re-articulate a clear and convincing rationale for chartering, as a mechanism to address serious shortcomings in our current education system, by creating many new and substantially different public schools of choice; and, use charters and chartering to more strategically and proactively address huge gaps in student achievement levels among racial and other demographic groups, while also contributing to racial and ethnic integration.
Date: 2004
Source: Progressive Policy Institute
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