So not only do vouchers help those who use them, but they also seem to positively affect those students who
stay in their traditional public schools.
So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus
staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).
It matched «virtual twins,» students with similar backgrounds and test scores, some of whom went to charters and some of whom
stayed in the traditional public school system.
Volumes of research data show that charter students are learning more than they would have had
they stayed in their traditional public schools.
Not exact matches
What about parents who are committed to
staying in our chosen
school — typically the
traditional public school in our neighborhood — but want to help it get better?
A recent study of Milwaukee's older and larger voucher program found that 94 % of students who
stayed in the program throughout high
school graduated, versus just 75 % of students
in Milwaukee's
traditional public schools.
Founded more than 25 years ago, they are operated independent of the
traditional school district but
in addition to the being heldto the same accountability standards as all
public schools, charter
schools have performance targets that they must meet
in order to
stay open.
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(For
traditional public schools, 74 percent of students
stayed within their neighborhood cluster;
in charter
schools, it was 57 percent.)
The effect of charter
schools on
traditional public school students
in Texas: Are children who
stay behind left behind?
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.
Noeleen Hay, a 15 - year teaching veteran and one of two founding teachers at Success Prep who remain at the
school, hopes teachers who
stay past the five - year mark will become the norm, like they are
in so many
traditional public schools.