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.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/pdf/teacher_compensation.pdf
This study investigates pay policies in charter school and private school networks and determines that charter schools make greater use of performance pay than private or district schools and are more likely to use differentiated pay to attract applicants to high-demand subject areas. The researchers found that, on average, charters did not pay their teachers as much as district schools, but offered a higher base salary -- in 2000, $26,977 for teachers with a bachelor's degree and no experience, compared with $25,888 for traditional public schools that same year. In 2000, 86 percent of charter schools that offered incentives in hard-to-staff subjects built them into base pay, while only 10 percent reported making one-time bonuses. By contrast, 41 percent of district schools that used pay to fill shortage areas awarded only one-time bonuses.
Date: 2007
Source: Public Impact, Center for American Progress
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