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The most careful, comprehensive study of virtual charter schools, from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that virtual charter students achieved the equivalent of 180 fewer days of learning in math and 72 fewer days of learning in reading than students in traditional public schools.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

Students must meet the same academic standards as students in traditional public schools.

«In every single category, African - American students in charter schools scored higher than African - American students in traditional public schools in the same host districts,» Moorehouse said.

A well - regarded Stanford University study found that charter school students were doing only slightly better in reading than students in traditional public schools, but at the same time doing slightly worse in math.

It's shocking, especially when more than 50 percent of students in traditional public schools lack proficiency and charter schools are providing children of greatest need with the only choices they've ever had.»

The Tricky Bit — How to Account for Selection Bias Now for the important question, in the context of these data and techniques, how did I compare students in choice schools to students in traditional public school knowing that that difference in decision might be because of some unobservable characteristic obscuring the true comparison between choice students and traditional public school students?

Has the study sufficiently accounted for the unobservable differences between students in choice schools and students in traditional public school?

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.

Given that many more students in charter schools have the advantages of a positive family structure, a peer group that is a positive influence, and their own inner drive that many students in traditional public schools do not, it is reasonable to expect that charter school students would perform very much better than they do.

As Commissioner of Education, Dianna Wentzell commented, «In some cases, students in choice programs made greater academic gains than their peers not enrolled in these programs (students in traditional public schools), thereby closing the achievement gap, while in other cases they did not.»

This Connecticut State Department of Education study acknowledged those differences and corrected for them but did not correct for other differences between the students in charter schools and students in traditional public schools.

The press release today tries to create the impression that students in the Parental Choice Programs receive more funding than students in a traditional public school.

Students in the MPCP score on average 2.8 points higher on the ACT than students in traditional public schools.

By deciding to roll back the college - preparatory standards, politicians in the Show - Me State have shown in deed that they have no concern for the futures of children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds who will soon make up a majority of students in traditional public schools.

In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower — and better — for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools.

Students at Extera receive more instruction than students in traditional public schools, with an extended school day and three additional weeks of school each year.

At the national level, seventy percent of black charter school students attend intensely segregated minority charter schools (which enroll 90 - 100 % of students from under - represented minority backgrounds), or twice as many as the share of intensely segregated black students in traditional public schools.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

According to a 2010 study by the Civil Rights Project, for example, almost half of low - income students in charter schools attended schools where more than 75 percent of students were low income, compared with about a third of low - income students in traditional public schools.

The one major exception is special education students, who leave charter schools at a much higher rate than either general education students in charter schools or special education students in traditional public schools.

The results, released in September, show that only one - third of LA students in traditional public schools performed up to their grade level in English and one - fourth did so in math but that the city's charter school students did much better.

«In her blog, Weingarten states, «A well - regarded Stanford University study found that charter school students were doing only slightly better in reading than students in traditional public schools, but at the same time doing slightly worse in math.»

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, the union of the city's teachers, said the proposed changes amounted to favoritism for charter schools at the expense of students in traditional public schools.

By comparison, just 38 percent of students in traditional public schools met state reading standards this year, and 36 percent did so in math.

Stanford University researchers found that students in some charter schools did extremely well, while many others were not faring as well as students in traditional public schools.

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

This study added two years of performance data to a 2010 study, which also found that public charter school students in New York City outperformed students in traditional public schools.

reports that «among students classified as English - language learners, 82 percent who originally enrolled in their charters for kindergarten remained in their schools four years later, compared with 70 percent of such students in traditional public schools.»

CCSA's response to The Los Angeles Times» editorial about the charter movement, Making Room for Charter Students, stating that allocating space for charter students under Prop. 39 should not be at the expense of students in traditional public schools.

The New York Times reported that national test data proves that students in charter schools «lag behind» students in traditional public schools.

It would be as if those who always thought the district was too large to be manageable suddenly got their wish, leaving half the students in traditional public schools and the other half to wherever their parents could find new slots to enroll them.

61 % of those surveyed agree with an Arizona law that provides tax credit scholarships to special education students in traditional public schools, allowing them to attend the public or private school of their choice.

School choice advocates told state legislators that charter school students aren't being funded fairly compared to students in traditional public schools, especially when it comes to getting money for buildings.

About 30 percent of students in traditional public schools would fall into that category.

We find that students attending schools in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program score a staggering 16 percent higher than students in traditional public schools.

The supporters of the charter school moratorium made two arguments: the charter schools are not as good as people say they are, and if the charters schools expanded they would hurt the education of students in the traditional public schools.

If anything, public charter schools tend to increase the academic performance of students in traditional public, likely due to increased competition.

Students in public charter schools receive $ 5,721 or 29 % less in average per - pupil revenue than students in traditional public schools.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

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.»

For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public 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.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

The difference in the rate of achievement growth between students enrolled in charter schools and students in traditional public schools is substantial.

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

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.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.