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/26380034.html
In this second annual national survey of U.S. adults conducted for Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, researchers find, as they did in 2007, a plurality of the overall public and every subgroup continue to support public charter schools. Forty-two percent of the public support public charter schools, while only 16 perfect oppose them. A considerable portion of the public (41%) remains undecided about public charter schools. An equal amount of public school teachers (33%) support and oppose public charters. The subgroups most likely to support public charters are Whites and African Americans (42%). Hispanics were more likely than the other groups to be undecided about public charters.
Date: 2008
Source: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Harvard University
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