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.ncsrp.org/cs/csr/download/csr_files/ncsrp_schoolsafety_web.pdf
This new study from the National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP) finds that urban public charter schools appear to be safer and experience fewer discipline problems than their traditional public school counterparts. Analyzing data from the 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), the author finds that charter schools consistently reported significantly fewer threats to persons or property and fewer behavioral problems than traditional public schools.
Date: 2007
Source: National Charter School Research Project
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