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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This analysis compares the performance of public charter and traditional schools in Texas. It finds that open-enrollment charter students out-perform traditional public school students in grades 6 through 9 in reading/English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics. Students in charters rated under the accountability system for alternative education campuses, which comprise approximately one-half of the charters in the state, generally fare better than their public school peers. In reading/ELA, students at alternative charter campuses performed above traditional alternative education students in grades 8 through 10. In math, students at alternative charter campuses performed above traditional alternative education students in grades 5 and 7 through 10.
Date: 2007
Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
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