But a recent study of
charter school performance in 16 states found that nearly 40 percent of charter schools achieved less academic growth than comparable traditional district schools.
16 academic studies have been published
on charter school performance since 2010, including four national studies and 12 regional studies from throughout the country.
While charter school performance has been mixed to date, a growing number of brand - name charter schools are having tremendous success in communities where high student achievement was thought impossible.
Accountability measures such as requiring charters to post meeting notices and minutes on their websites as well as the publishing of annual reports
on charter school performance.
Over the past few years, several studies
of charter school performance in Boston have been conducted by a variety of researchers using different methodologies.
This CREDO paper, which looked
at charter school performance in Texas between 2011 and 2015, found a small positive effect in reading and no effect in math.
Based on the principles of data - driven instruction, this interactive session will provide an overview of how charter boards can use interim and summative data — academic, financial, and operational — to ensure quality governance that takes into account the Arizona State Board
for Charter Schools performance frameworks.
Representing a heroic effort to wrestle with the enormous complexities of studying
charter school performance across more than two dozen states, the CREDO team has drawn notice for its remarkable effort and even - handed presentation of the data.
What started as an exciting interest in
public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.
Toward that end, the association has developed an accountability tool for
measuring charter school performance that uses a regressive - based predictive model to filter out non-school effects on the students.
Again, the best evidence on
charter school performance comes from studies exploiting the lottery - based admissions processes of schools that are oversubscribed.
This book will help you learn from charter school experiences, better
understand charter school performance, reflect on the non-achievement impacts of charter schools, and provide you information on what the charter school universe looks like today.
The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in
charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.
Those states were Michigan and North Carolina,
where charter school performance was three to four percentage points lower, and New York, Ohio, and Texas, where performance was 8.7 to 11.4 points lower.
This Tier 1 ranking, which indicates high standards of performance, is based on the results of the School Quality Report, the PCSB's annual tool for assessing and
monitoring charter school performance.
◦ the methods used to identify the educational strengths and needs of students and how well educational goals and performance standards are met by students attending the charter school
«The good news is that we have a number of states» — she named Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana and Missouri — «where the
average charter school performance is actually better» than that of traditional public schools.
CCSA aims to remain the preeminent source for
California charter school performance data in order to inform strategic school support and advocacy at the state and local levels and will continue to publish an annual Portrait of the Movement.
In Nashville,
charter school performance varies widely, with some performing significantly better than the rest of the state and better than Nashville public schools, while others are at the bottom of state rankings.
As a simple report on the charter community, the data won't settle any debates over demographics, backfilling, or network vs.
independent charter school performance, but it does help paint the picture of NYC's robust charter sector.
In 2013 and 2015, the Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) conducted groundbreaking independent studies to learn more about
charter school performance across the country.
Under the framework, in 2010, thirty (30) schools were below the minimum criteria
for charter school performance, while seventy - seven (77) schools were identified as «high impact» schools for their combination of high API and high SSM scores.
Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public /
charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.
Overall,
charter school performance is undercut, nationally and in many states, by a subset of low - performing charters that face the threat of NCLB restructuring themselves.
That presentation, of course, notes that
charter school performance has improved dramatically since CREDO's previous 2009 study.
Max Eden joined EdNext Editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss DeVos» appointment and Detroit's
charter school performance on the EdNext Podcast.
About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of
charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.