Opportunity scholarships could be used at private schools and neighboring public school districts, should those schools choose to accept scholarship students. (commonwealthfoundation.org)
In addition Kala's Artists - in - Schools program provides curriculum - based visual arts education to children in neighboring public schools in Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland. (kala.org)
Rigorous studies (like those from CREDO and NAPCS) find that student demographics in charters almost always match those of neighboring public schools; moreover, incoming charter pupils are just as low - performing, if not more so, than their traditional public - school peers. (educationnext.org)