In December 2017, in response to an Associated Press report that showed charters were more
segregated than traditional schools, the National Alliance for Public Charters essentially said, research be damned; that it was not their concern.
Not exact matches
Numerous studies, including six separate analyses by the U.S. Department of Education (each of which relied on state - level data), have concluded that charter
schools are more
segregated than traditional public
schools.
Ideally, to examine the issue of segregation, we would pose the question, Are the charter
schools that students attend more or less
segregated than the
traditional public
schools these students would otherwise attend?
And we know that, more often
than not, the students attending
traditional public
schools in cities are in intensely
segregated schools.
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.
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.
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.»
The authors of the CRP study, «Choice without Equity,» concluded that charter
schools are much more
segregated than traditional public
schools.
Charters were always more racially
segregated than traditional public
schools in North Carolina, and they are becoming more so over time.
Charter
schools — which are publicly funded but independently operated — are no exception, and researchers from Pennsylvania State University and University of California Los Angeles have found that in some states, these
schools are more
segregated than traditional public
schools.
That was the conclusion of a recent study by the Associated Press, which found that charters are more
segregated than traditional public
schools.
Research has shown that charter
schools are more racially and socioeconomically
segregated than traditional public
schools, particularly for black students.
Some experts, including those at UCLA's Civil Rights Project, have found that charter
schools are more
segregated overall
than traditional schools.
Some studies misleadingly claim that charter
schools are more
segregated than traditional public
schools.
A number of researchers have found evidence that students in charter
schools are more racially
segregated than their
traditional public peers.
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.
Proposed to empower teachers, desegregate students, and allow innovation from which the
traditional public
schools could learn, many charter
schools instead prized management control, reduced teacher voice, further
segregated students, and became competitors, rather
than allies, of regular public
schools.
The Brookings report said individual charter
schools are more racially
segregated than the
traditional public
schools that serve the same geographical area.
Fourth, «The invisible hand of the market was to be the solution primarily through charters and privatizing
schools... A growing body of literature shows that charter
schools do not perform better
than traditional public
schools and they
segregate schools by race and by socio - economic status.»