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.fcd-us.org/pdfs/CharterSchoolsMannoWest.pdf
While the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 poses some challenges to charter schools, it also provides a boost to chartering. Many districts around the nation are now deciding to take advantage of the law's provision that permits converting failed schools into charter schools. The authors of this paper propose several conditions which must be met if the expansion of charter schools is to lead to improved performance. The most important of these is that the charter must be based on a strong authorizing and monitoring process that produces a genuine performance contract.
Date: 2006
Source: Brookings Institution
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