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.ncspe.org/publications_files/OP119.pdf
This paper seeks to identify supporters and opponents of charter schools at all levels of government and describe their motivations and behaviors. The author explains that state and local support for charter schools is most often determined by needs and incentives and that there is no cohesive state or local charter political pattern, given the variations in charter schools and their contexts. He concludes that national organizations will not win "the war on charters," but rather state and local politics will decide if charter schools will continue their impressive growth or end up as a marginal reform that impacts small numbers of students in urban centers.
Date: 2006
Source: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
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