Students enrolled in a charter school must be funded as if they are enrolled in a basic program or a special program
at any other public school in the school district.
Places where teachers and administrators can experiment and take risks, create new programs that, if successful, could then be
replicated at other public schools to improve the entire system.
Researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT have released the results of a groundbreaking study that suggests charter school students in Boston outperform their
peers at other public schools in Boston.
If it is possible to meet the needs of special education students at a public school serving low - income children in the Bronx, it can be
done at other public schools and at charter schools, too.
Across Massachusetts, students with special needs made up 14 percent of the enrollment at all charter schools in 2015, compared with 16
percent at all other public schools, according to state data.
The study, which used students selected for schools based upon lottery therefore allowing direct comparison of the groups, indicated that charter school students in Boston outperform their
peers at other public schools.
It is critical that you email your state representative right now to let them know public charter school children are not worth less than their peers
at other public schools.
It also confirms what we've long known: student achievement at high - poverty schools is lower than
at other public schools.
Putting the word «charter» before a school's name does not guarantee success, but 2009 studies by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston students) and the RAND Corporation (Chicago) showed charter students outperforming their peers
at other public schools.