The report's findings indicated that in 2011, charters were more
likely than traditional public schools to far exceed their predicted performance based on student background, and about twice as many students were served by schools far exceeding their prediction than were served by far under - performing schools.
In both cities, charter elementary schools are much less
likely than the traditional public schools to identify students as disabled, and students with identified disabilities are much less likely to apply to charter schools.
In addition, we also control for whether the individual student had been retained in a grade, whether the student had ever been retained, and whether the student attends a charter school (which in Florida are more
likely than traditional public schools to have K — 8 configurations).
According to University of Washington's Daniel Goldhaber and his colleagues, charter schools are more
likely than traditional public schools to use merit pay.
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.
Not exact matches
Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite
public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as
likely to attend modern universities
than traditional universities.»
«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter
schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less
likely to pass Ohio's test for high
school graduation
than their peers in
traditional charter and
traditional public schools,» said McEachin.
These studies show, consistently, that parental
schools of choice not controlled by
public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently
than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less
likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.
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.
Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more
likely to attend hypersegregated minority
schools, the difference between the charter and
traditional public sector is far less stark
than the CRP authors suggest.
Instead of asking whether all students in charter
schools are more
likely to attend segregated
schools than are all students in
traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter
schools to that of nearby
traditional public schools.
Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high
school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more
likely to attend college
than similar students who attended a
traditional public high
school.
Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle
school), students who attend a charter high
school are 7 to 15 percentage points more
likely to earn a standard diploma
than students who attend a
traditional public high
school.
Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high
school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more
likely to attend college
than similar students who attended a
traditional public high
school (see Figure 1).
In Chicago, students who attended a charter high
school were 7 percentage points more
likely to earn a regular high
school diploma
than their counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a
traditional public high
school.
These students are much more
likely to attend Detroit's
traditional public schools than charters: 18 percent of DPS students have IEPs compared to 10 percent in charter
schools.
A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high
schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests
than students in
traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more
likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.
It is not hard to imagine a more partisan Democratic mayor appointing a chancellor that would be less friendly to private
school options
than traditional public schools and thus more
likely to support the creation and continued existence of the
traditional options.
Ritter continues, «Instead of asking whether all students in charter
schools are more
likely to attend segregated
schools than are all students in
traditional public schools, we should be comparing the levels of segregation for the students in charter
schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned
public schools.»
It finds that teachers in
traditional public schools are three times as
likely to be «chronically absent» from
school as charter teachers, meaning they are absent more
than ten days per year.
In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended
public charter
schools in these eight districts were 146 % more
likely to pass state exams
than students at
traditional district
schools, and three times more
likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»
Studies are showing, for example, that black students in charter
schools are more
likely than their counterparts in
traditional public schools to be educated in an intensely segregated setting.
In addition, using CCSA's own performance metric, the Similar Students Measure (SSM), charter
public schools serving African American students were more
than three times as
likely as
traditional public schools to consistently outperform their predicted performance in a single year and overtime.
Invalid Displayed Gallery Students who attend Florida's charter high
schools are more
likely to graduate, go to college, stay in college and earn more
than students who attend
traditional public high
schools.
In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high
schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more
likely to graduate from high
school and 8 to 10 percentage points more
likely to enroll in college
than a comparison set of students attending
traditional public high
schools.
But at the same time, a second study from the university released in tandem with the first shows that charter
school students tend to be loyal to their
schools: They were up to 80 percent less
likely to leave their charter
schools than their peers at
traditional public schools.
As
schools of choice, these
schools likely benefit from having a more engaged parent community
than neighboring
traditional public schools do.
Compared with
traditional public schools, they were somewhat more
likely to give students an academic boost
than to hold them behind.