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Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

The classroom - based charters were 33 percent more likely to meet their state achievement goals than other public schools, according to the May 25 report.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

According to the Global Report Card, more than a third of the 30 school districts with the highest math achievement in the United States are actually charter schools.

And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

Students in these grades make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in traditional public schools, and the negative effects are not limited to schools in their first year of operation.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

For instance, is there any evidence that parents are being misled, that charter schools are actually diminishing rather than improving their children's achievement?

The report ignores the judgments of parents and students, uses bizarre definitions of such terms as innovation and accountability, compares charter schools with the ideal school rather than with traditional district schools, and presents confusing and out - of - context discussions of such admittedly complex matters as school finance and student achievement.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

A new Achievement School District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're humming.

In general, charter schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job than their traditional public - school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter schools in suburban areas.

But do charters vary more in terms of their ability to promote student achievement than comparable traditional public schools?

With 25 schools serving 12,500 students, Alliance is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 % of all California school districts, and successfully closing the achievement gap at scale...

On average, charter schools show higher achievement than traditional public schools, especially with traditionally underserved student groups and in urban environments.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

Students transferring to charter schools had prior achievement levels that were generally similar to or lower than those of their TPS [traditional public school] peers.

The achievement results are strong, and the pilot schools are doing better than the charter schools at attracting special - education students and English - language learners to their already diverse student populations.

Across five key characteristics — teacher quality, discipline, expectations for achievement, safety, and instruction in character and values — charter parents are on average 13 percentage points more satisfied than district parents.

A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter school fourth graders had lower scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test, than their counterparts in regular public schools.

A report released yesterday by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and prominently covered in yesterday's New York Times actually showed that students in California's public charter schools are doing as well and even slightly better on student achievement than those in California's broader public school system.

«Although it is too early to draw sweeping conclusions, the initial indications are that the average student attending a charter school has higher achievement than he or she otherwise would,» Miss Hoxby said.

Given the positive rhetoric about charter schools being able to «beat the odds» one might expect their achievement profile on the SAT to be significantly higher than the achievement found in public high schools located in either «A» or «B» communities.

They say student achievement is much more than a score on a standardized test and that it's a mistake to rely so heavily on charter schools.

For us, being recognized as the highest performing charter school in CT means so much more than above average test scores and achievement results.

Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

In Figure 1 notice how most of the mean charter high school SAT Math achievement is (purple circles «R») lower than the most of the SAT Math achievement reported in the two DFG's serving the poorest communities (DFG's «A» and «B» — Blue & Red), and lower than the high schools located in the «J» and «I» DFG's (wealthiest communities — Green & Yellow).

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tCharter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tcharter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

Last time I checked, the highest performing charters were doing better than their district counterparts in urban districts, but very few of these schools have come close to closing the achievement gap when it comes to college and career - readiness.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

Put another way, students at largely unionized neighborhood schools are twice as likely to progress better in their achievement than students in the largely non-unionized charter schools that are competing to enroll them.

There is no education reform currently being seriously considered anywhere in the nation with a worse track record of academic achievement than virtual charter schools.

By third grade, the average charter student scored 5.8 points higher in math on standard achievement tests than those who lost the lottery and 5.3 points higher in English.

«Charter schools absent school board oversight have far less accountability for student achievement than traditional public schools,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

In addition, a recent review of the public high schools in New Haven versus the two New Haven based charter high schools, both run by Achievement First, revealed that Achievement First HAS AN EVEN WORSE RECORD than the public schools when it came to keeping high school students enrolled.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host districts.

On this year's statewide achievement test, students at mayor - sponsored charter schools were 11 percentage points more likely to achieve proficiency in English, and 10 points more likely to achieve proficiency in math, than were students of local public schools, according to an analysis by the Indianapolis Mayor's Office of Education.