Statewide,
the effect of charter schools is relatively low.
I went on the road to Bethlehem shortly before Christmas to understand
the effect of charter schools on Pennsylvania's district public schools.
The author went to the town to understand
the effect of charter schools on Pennsylvania's public schools.
The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind?
A review of earlier research on
the effect of charter schools on students in traditional district schools can be found here.
To assess the spillover
effect of charter schools on students at district schools, I analyze how individual students» test scores, attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a charter school.
Our analysis of competitive effects therefore investigates whether
the effect of charter schools on traditional public schools varies with the number of nearby charter schools as well as with the distance to the nearest charter.
In short, the overrepresentation of exiters matters, but it accounts for only a small fraction of the estimated negative
effect of charter schools.
Taking into account the higher rates of student turnover in charter schools reduces the magnitude of the estimated negative
effect of charter schools by 29 percent in reading and by 30 percent in math.
I'm aware of 4 rigorous studies of
the effect of charter schools on attainment.
The basic strategy we use to evaluate
the effect of charter schools on student achievement is to compare students who are awarded a seat in a charter school through a lottery with students who enter the lottery but are not awarded a seat.
There are several possible explanations for
the effects of charter schools being larger in math than in reading.
The estimated
effect of charter school attendance for each of our measures is very small in magnitude; none is statistically significant.
Marty West talks with Sarah Cordes about her new research on this topic: «Charters and the Common Good: The spillover
effects of charter schools in New York City.»
Charters and the Common Good The spillover
effects of charter schools in New York City By Sarah A. Cordes
In the Spring 2018 issue cover story, we present evidence on the spillover
effects of charter schools on nearby district - school students.
And it has an even smaller effect on the results for college enrollment, reducing the estimated
effect of charter school attendance by only about 10 percent in both locations.
These patterns suggest that the positive
effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.
Happily, we have four RCTs on
the effects of charter schools that allow us to know something about
the effects of charter schools with high confidence.
To estimate
the effects of charter schools on students in traditional public schools, we use information on each school's distance from the nearest charter school to develop indicators of whether or not the traditional school faces competition from charter schools.
Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative
effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.
Nor are the negative effects of attending a charter school substantially offset by positive
effects of charter schools on traditional public schools, a finding that may reflect the fact that North Carolina charter schools provide only a limited amount of competition.
In particular, the results are most useful for understanding
the effects of charter schools run by education - management organizations on student populations that comprise largely low - income and racial / ethnic minorities.
But in a new article for Education Next, Sarah A. Cordes of Temple University examines
the effects of charter schools on neighboring district school students in New York City and finds that these spillover effects are actually positive: students attending a district school within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.
But a large body of evidence based on nonexperimental methods paints a consistent picture of
the effects of charter schools.
Finally, the only study to have estimated
the effect of charter school attendance on students» job prospects, although based on nonexperimental methods, finds that attending a Florida charter school increased students» earnings as adults despite having no impact on their standardized test scores.
Research on charter schools and non-tested outcomes is sparser, but two recent studies examined long - term
effects of charter school attendance on students in Florida and Texas.
The purpose of this article is to assess the causal
effects of charter school attendance and a closely related alternative, called pilot schools, on student achievement.
The effects of charter schools in urban populations are of special interest because any gains in this context might help reduce the black - white achievement gap.
We use student assignment lotteries to estimate
the effect of charter school attendance on student achievement in Boston.
Gill is one of the nation's leading experts on
the effects of charter schools.
The effect of charter school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..
To shed light on the question of spillover effects, I use data from New York City to estimate
the effects of charter schools on students in two types of nearby district schools: those in the same neighborhood, and those that are co-located (in the same building).
Prior studies examining this question have focused on the district level or explored
the effects of charter schools located within several miles of a traditional public school.
Positive
effects of charter schools on student achievement were found at both the middle and high school levels and across subjects.
These findings shed new light on the public debate over
the effects of charter schools on non-charter students.
Charter schools are hardly a panacea when it comes to diversity, however, and current studies on
the effects of the charter school sector on segregation have been mixed.
House Education Committee Chairman Dave Quall, D - Mount Vernon, who supports the charter law, said in the conference that schools gain and lose per - pupil funds every year as student populations fluctuate, and that the effect of larger demographic trends dwarfs
the effect of charter school transfers.
Brian Gill, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research in Cambridge, MA, looked at 11 studies in 11 different states which compared
the effects of charter schools on traditional public schools and found that six studies showed «some evidence of positive effects, four found no effects, and one found negative effects.»
The effects of charter schools on charter students and public schools.
The effect of this charter school growth is hard to measure in smaller communities, but we know that rural students face unique challenges in accessing the same level of opportunities made available to urban students.
Dale Kildee (MI), the committee's ranking Democrat, expressed skepticism about
the effect of charter school access and vouchers on parental engagement and stressed that the two options do not serve all children: «As we explore strategies for comprehensive school reform, including parent engagement,» he cautioned, «we should never lose sight of our commitment to equal access for all students, not just those who receive a voucher or attend a charter school.»
The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) serves as a national center to provide on - demand resources, information, and technical assistance to support successful planning, authorizing, implementation, and sustainability of high - quality charter schools; to share evaluations on
the effects of charter schools; and to disseminate information about successful practices in charter schools.
He is one of the nation's leading experts on
the effects of charter schools.
He is also an expert on charter schools, having participated in several studies of
the effects of charter schools on student performance, including a study for the Gates Foundation examining impacts of charter schools in 7 states on graduation and college attendance outcomes.
Moody's recently reiterated its belief about the adverse
effects of charter schools this past November when Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have increased the state's cap on charter schools.
In other words, the result may be driven by the unobservable characteristics of the students who attend charter schools, rather than the actual
effect of the charter school themselves.
Not exact matches
As principals got a better sense this week
of their
school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run
charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the
effects of potential funding cuts.
«Further, they would have the
effect of leading potential educators through an essentially fake certification process,» the suit continued, «one not valid for employment in New York's public
school districts, other
charter schools, or the public
schools of other states.»
UFT President Michael Mulgrew blasted the state's proposal to allow
charter schools in
effect to certify their own teachers with scant requirements or proof
of professional expertise.