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.
Schools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pi
Schools run by the Recovery
School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's
worst - performing
schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pi
schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans
schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pi
schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far
worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans
area by the Times - Picayune.
Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the
worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's
school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor wealthier
school districts over needier
areas — and because they sometimes spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.