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«Based only on enrollments aggregated to the national and state level, the authors repeatedly highlight the overrepresentation of black students in charter schools in an attempt to portray a harmful degree of segregation,» co-author Brian Kisida explains.

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A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Charter schools have been very popular in the black community and generally beneficial for black students:

Bob Lenz is the co-founder of the Envision Schools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stSchools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stschools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino students.

New York City has 185 charter schools, which the coalition points out serves students who live in poverty and are 93 percent black or Hispanic.

At Success Academy Charter Schools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State lasSchools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State lasschools in New York State last year.

Around 50 to 60 percent of traditional charter school students are Black, compared to approximately 10 percent in online charters and 12 percent in traditional public schools.

The [RAND] study determined that in five of the seven locales, the movement of black students to charter schools meant these students attended more segregated schools (Zimmer, et al., 2009; see also Bifulco & Ladd, 2007).

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if the charter schools draw from their neighborhoods, they will draw students who are 90 to 95 percent black or Hispanic.

What we found is that, compared with other students in the traditional public schools, charter school applicants are more likely to be black and poor but are otherwise fairly similar.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

Something like that is obviously true of black students in charter schools.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

According to the brief, which was published last month, the level of racial segregation for black students in charter schools is higher than it is in public schools.

As in our state analysis, an increase in the fraction of a school district's population that is black makes a district more likely to have a charter school in operation and to have a greater share of its students enrolled in charter schools.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

We estimated that an increase of 11 percentage points in the black population in a district increases the share of students enrolled in charter schools by about 6 percentage points.

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.

Roughly 40 percent of charter school students in grades 3 — 8 were black, compared with 31 percent in traditional public schools.

Compared with traditional public schools, charter schools in North Carolina enrolled a larger percentage of black students and lower percentages of Hispanic and white students.

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.

The research team contributed, for example, to the reporting projects Black Students More Likely to Be Arrested at School, A Virtual Mess: Inside Colorado's Largest Online Charter School, and Corporal Punishment Use Found in Schools in 21 States.

Not only does the black community support charters, but African - American students enjoy over-representation in charter schools.

In contrast, charter schools have a higher proportion of black students (about 70 %) and a lower proportion of Hispanic students (about 20 %).

And charter schools, which predominantly serve black students, were doing so well that one Stanford University researcher proclaimed that they had practically eliminated the «Harlem - Scarsdale» gap in math.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

In Denver, black students transferred from traditional public schools that are 42.2 % black to charters that are 51.0 % black; both the TPS and the charters had about 15 % white students.

In Philadelphia, for example, black students moved from segregated traditional public schools (84.2 % black) to segregated charter schools (87.0 % black).

However, to draw such a strong conclusion, despite the explicit RAND conclusion that charter students moved into schools with «racial distributions similar to the TPSs from which they came,» the CRP authors ignored the magnitudes of the changes in black enrollment.

However, the CRP authors simply misread and misstate the results, claiming that the RAND study «determined that in five of the seven locales, the movement of black students to charter schools meant these students attended more segregated schools.»

In each case, a reasonable conclusion is that the average charter student left a heavily black traditional public school for a heavily black charter school.

With a recent U.S. & World News Report ranking the state # 50 in education coupled with the staggering ACT statistic of 1 in every 50 Black students being college - ready — we know that high - quality charter schools can be a solution to this crisis.

Consider that in the nation's largest cities, where well over 80 percent of charter - school students are black or Latino, fewer than 33 percent of teachers are black or Latino, and fewer than 10 percent of charter schools are founded and led by blacks or Latinos.

And a 2015 Stanford University study cited by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district sCharter Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district sSchools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district scharter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district sschools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district schoolsschools.

However, Ms. Hoxby's research has shown that «creaming» can't explain the academic success of charter schools given that the typical urban charter student is a poor black or Hispanic kid living in a home with adults who possess below - average education credentials.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

«Learning gains for charter school students are larger by significant amounts for Black, Hispanic, low - income, and special education students in both math and reading.»

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

Over 50 percent [of students in charter schools] are from black and Latino households, mostly in inner cities.

Missing from both platforms is the voice of Black people who choose charter schools, students who are well served by them, educators who work in them, or staff working in education philanthropies that support them.

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.

In an effort to engender greater equity within California's educational system, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today joined members of the California Legislative Black Caucus and members of California's African - American community to announce Assembly Bill (AB) 2635, which will secure additional educational funding for African - American students by fixing a fundamental flaw in the state's educational budget known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFFIn an effort to engender greater equity within California's educational system, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today joined members of the California Legislative Black Caucus and members of California's African - American community to announce Assembly Bill (AB) 2635, which will secure additional educational funding for African - American students by fixing a fundamental flaw in the state's educational budget known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFFin the state's educational budget known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

Kaleem Caire, former CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison and founder of One City Early Learning Centers, unsuccessfully proposed a charter school in 2011 in an effort to address a stubborn gap in academic achievement between black students and their white peers.

The largest nationwide study of charter performance from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes found particularly strong outcomes for low - income black and Hispanic students and that recent improvements in charter performance are «mainly driven by opening higher - performing schools and by closing those that underperform.»

The performance of black low - income students attending charter schools in large cities is particularly striking.

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

According to a 2015 Stanford University study of 41 regions, black students in charter schools learned the equivalent of 44 extra days in reading and 59 extra days in math.

Typical is a study released by Stanford researchers in 2013 that showed black students gained the equivalent of 14 days of learning by attending charter schools and that black students living in poverty saw even greater benefits, gaining the equivalent of 29 days in reading and 36 days in math.