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.crpe.org/cs/crpe/view/csr_pubs/2
Bringing charters to scale remains a major challenge. To learn more about barriers to the expansion of high-quality public charter schools and how they might be removed, the National Charter School Research Project at the University of Washington and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools convened a meeting of leaders from charter school management organizations, school districts, and foundations earlier this year. This report summarizes the discussions from that meeting and provides concrete recommendations for those interested in creating a more hospitable environment for expanding charters in cities and nationwide. The report argues for building a coordinated infrastructure to support quality charter schools at scale, including concentrated investments, revised state laws, and collaboration to address leadership, human resources, and other common provider challenges. This is the first of three NCSRP reports on charter school scale-up.
Date: 2006
Source: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, National Charter School Research Project
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