Opportunity Lives: Surveys Find Charter School Parents More
Satisfied Than District - School Parents http://bit.ly/2iyNBBX
Across five key characteristics — teacher quality, discipline, expectations for achievement, safety, and instruction in character and values — charter parents are on average 13 percentage points more
satisfied than district parents.
Not exact matches
Consistent with prior research, we find that parents in the private sector are far more
satisfied with most aspects of their children's schools
than are parents with children in
district schools.
Charter parents are considerably more
satisfied with their schools
than are
district - school parents.
Charter school parents are generally more
satisfied with the schools their children attend
than parents of students in
district public schools.
If parents are generally more
satisfied with charter schools
than district public schools, what can they do to ensure that charter schools have the political and financial support to keep growing?
The first study finds that charter parents are considerably more
satisfied with their schools
than are
district - school parents, though private - school parents are the most
satisfied of all.
Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School
District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School
District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with
satisfying special interests and following procedures
than with school quality.
When asked to assess the school itself, the share of low - income parents saying they are «very
satisfied» is 10 percentage points higher at charters
than at assigned -
district schools.
However, for all three age groups, charter - school parents are more
satisfied than parents at assigned -
district schools.
Averaging across all five assessment indicators, the percentage of low - income parents saying they are «very
satisfied» is 9 percentage points higher at charters
than at assigned -
district schools.
• In all but the private sector, parents of elementary - aged children are more
satisfied with their schools
than are parents of children in their high - school years, but charter schools gather higher rates of satisfaction
than assigned
district schools at all age levels.
Two National Surveys find Charter - School Parents More
Satisfied than Those with Children in District - Operated Schools Private school parents most satisfi
Satisfied than Those with Children in
District - Operated Schools Private school parents most
satisfiedsatisfied of all
• In all four sectors, high - income parents are more
satisfied with their schools
than are low - income parents, but the difference between private schools and assigned
district schools is greater for low - income parents
than those of high income.
The law has been so cumbersome that Duncan has had to grant more waivers
than his predecessor to school
districts that have had trouble
satisfying some of NCLB's provisions.