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.johnlocke.org/acrobat/policyReports/10yrsncchartersexcellence.pdf
This document analyzes North Carolina's 10-year history with charter schools. Those schools now enroll about 30,000 students, but growth is limited by a statutory cap of 100 schools. The author finds that the state's charter schools have low average school and class sizes, innovative curricula and instructional approaches, few disciplinary problems, and student performance comparable to district schools. He seeks to debunk some studies that have shown that N.C.'s charter school students have fallen short academically. Along with lifting the charter school cap, the report recommends that policymakers endorse an "Education Bill of Rights" that ties state funding to a student, not to a school system; create franchises that would allow successful charter school operators to avoid the state's application and approval process; and reconfigure the state's lottery formula to allow some lottery proceeds to flow to charter school students.
Date: 2007
Source: John Locke Foundation
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