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When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

This is clearly an inappropriate analytic strategy because the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

Using this proxy, we find that the applicants to charter schools are much more likely to be poor than is the average New York City student (93 percent versus 74 percent).

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

If a company needs 30 principals, the average hire is more apt to resemble the typical principal than the renegade that a stand - alone charter school might seek.

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

The average tenure of teachers at Partnership Schools is more than ten years, over four times that of some the larger charter management organizations in the city.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

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.

In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average charter - school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in nearby district schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a charter school.

Students in public charter schools receive $ 5,721 or 29 % less in average per - pupil revenue than students in traditional public schools (TPS) in 14 major metropolitan areas across the U. S in Fiscal Year 2014.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

The average performance composite among traditional public schools increased from 67 percent in 1996 — 97 to 75 percent in 1999 — 2000 as the number of charter schools in the state increased from 0 to more than 70.

Traditional public schools received $ 7,000 more per pupil in local revenues, on average, than did public charter schools.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

It bears noting that these charter results are significantly better than the national average CREDO reported in 2009, in which just 17 percent of charter schools in the 16 states they studied performed better than their district counterparts.

However, it is important to note that the complications associated with being a new school can not fully explain the poor average performance of charter schools: the negative effects of attending a charter school in North Carolina remain greater than.10 standard deviations in both subjects, even for schools that have been operating for five years (see Figure 3a and 3b).

A Fordham Institute study found that on average charters receive $ 1,800 less per student than traditional public schools, despite serving more disadvantaged students.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

The newspapers are much more supportive of charter schools than of No Child Left Behind, with charters receiving an average score of 4.1 (meaning the papers are «somewhat supportive» on average), compared to 1.2 for NCLB (meaning the papers are slightly better than neutral on average).

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

Charter schools in the NewSchools» portfolio achieve proficiency rates in reading and math that are about 9 percentage points higher, on average, than those achieved by schools in their host districts.

In the remaining states, the average percentage of LEP students in charter schools is lower than the statewide average.

According to a 2011 study, on average charters receive $ 3,509 less in annual funding per student than district schools.

Minnesota and Massachusetts charter schools enroll a larger percentage of LEP students than the average of other public schools in their states.

In eight states, the typical charter school serves a somewhat lower percentage of students with disabilities than the average public school in its state.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

[5] At the beginning of the study period in 2001, there was substantial variation in quality across charter schools and, on average, charter schools in Texas were less effective than traditional public schools.

Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota charter schools stand out in that they enroll a higher percentage of students of color than the average of all public schools in their respective states.

On average, charter schools in Arizona do no better, and sometimes worse, than the traditional public schools.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

The SASS also suggests that magnet schools receive many more resources than charter schools, on average.

The second is an RSD charter school with no curricular theme or college - prep mission, but higher than average numbers of extracurriculars, sports, and student support staff.

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

These results tell us whether a student attending a randomly selected charter school will perform better, on average, than a similar student attending a traditional public school.

Cluster 1 contains 19 RSD charter schools with more - than - average school hours and a college - prep mission.

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.

«The survey also found that more than two - thirds of public charter schools, 67 percent, across the nation reported having children on their waitlist, with an average waiting list of 214 students.

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.

On average, charter schools show higher achievement than traditional public schools, especially with traditionally underserved student groups and in urban environments.

Charter schools are often forced to operate at a much lower funding level than traditional public schools, facing an average disparity in per - pupil funding of 29 percent in metropolitan areas.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

(In the current study, charter school applicants do in fact have higher than average test scores even before they enroll.

The average gain for FRL students attending charter schools, however, equaled 17 points — more than double the national average gain.

Elementary and middle charters, on average, did better than their counterpart district schools, while charter high schools did not.

Private - school parents are on average 12 percentage points more satisfied than charter - school parents across the same five characteristics.

A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.