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.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/02/13/23charter.h27.html
This Education Week piece investigates recent growing efforts to assist charter schools in finding and affording facilities. Facility support programs from the U.S. Department of Education, states, philanthropies, and others are discussed. The article reports that private lenders are, at last, becoming more comfortable with lending funds to charter schools as they are proving to be a lasting education reform strategy.
Date: 2008
Source: Education Week on the Web
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