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.hoover.org/publications/ednext/18844884.html
This study examines 42 public charter schools operating in New York City in 2005-06. The authors find that NYC public charter schools are having positive effects on the academic progress of the students who attend them. Students in grades 3-8 scored substantially higher on state reading and math tests than would have been expected had they remained in district schools. (An insufficient number of public charter school students in grades 9 through 12 precluded the authors from accurately reporting achievement progress for high school students.) Applicants to the city's public charter schools are twice as likely to be black (64 percent versus 32 percent) and much less likely to be white or Asian (7 percent versus 28 percent) than the average public school student in New York City. Applicants to public charter schools are much more likely to be poor than is the average New York City student (93 percent versus 74 percent). About one-half of public charter school applicants are female, just like students in the traditional public schools.
Date: 2008
Source: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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