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There is not yet a sufficient number of
charter school students in grades 9 through 12 for us to report achievement effects for this group.
Learning gains
for charter school students are larger by significant amounts for black, Hispanic, low - income and special needs students in both math and reading, the study found.
We can not dismiss that our counterparts at other public schools receive $ 5.5 billion in facilities funding annually while
charter school students receive nothing.
The study's methodology addresses that issue by comparing
charter school students with students of traditional schools who applied for charter spots but did not get them.
The study estimates that
average charter school students likely are about a month and a half ahead in reading and math than if they had attended their local public schools.
In subsequent years,
charter school students continue to incur a loss of learning in reading from charter school attendance while the impact on math becomes insignificant.
The report also found that achievement gaps are lower
among charter school students when gaps are studied between white students and African - American students and between white students and Hispanic students.
She
said charter school students and parents can't claim a difference in education since they also have the option to attend public schools, but some say that's not really a choice.
Despite the higher average education level of their parents,
charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.
Although academic results vary by state, most studies find that
charter school students learn more in a year than do comparable district school students.
It found that the average academic growth of
charter school students surpassed public school students in both mathematics and reading, and at each level from elementary to high school.
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 factors explaining the performance of
charter school students thus remain a bit of an academic holy mystery — hotly debated, though possibly unable to be resolved for the time being.
That means that researchers can
connect charter school students to their outcomes well into the future, which includes college preparation test scores and college entrance.
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.
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