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.
Sixty percent of the charter schools studied performed worse
than their traditional public school counterparts.
In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels
than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.
Charter schools are not a magic bullet to success, and detractors like to point out how many charters don't boast test scores all that higher
than their traditional public school counterparts.
For example, the NAEP data reveal that charter fourth - graders in California and Arizona, representing fully a third of all charter schools, do better
than their traditional public school counterparts in reading performance.
While the report recognized a robust national demand for more charter schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public schools, while 37 percent of charter schools showed gains that were worse
than their traditional public school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter schools demonstrating no significant difference.
The report found poor oversight when it came to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores
than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology.
Most charters, at least here in Pennsylvania, receive considerably fewer dollars per student
than their traditional public school counterparts.
Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores
than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.
Not exact matches
For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter
school students were twice as likely to attend
schools that enrolled fewer
than 10 percent non-minority students as their
counterparts in
traditional public schools.
In Chicago, students who attended a charter high
school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular high
school diploma
than their
counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a
traditional public high
school.
Bluntly put, do students in charter
schools learn more
than their
counterparts in
traditional public schools?
Based on the findings presented here, the typical student in Michigan charter
schools gains more learning in a year
than his [
traditional public school (TPS)-RSB-
counterparts, amounting to about two months of additional gains in reading and math.
In general, charter
schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job
than their
traditional public -
school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter
schools in suburban areas.
The study of charter
schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter
schools do better academically
than their
traditional counterparts, and more
than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse
than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in
traditional public schools.»
, found that for every charter performing better
than the
traditional public schools in its area, there are two charters either at or below or the performance of their
public school counterparts.
Students in publicly funded and independently managed online charters across the country made far less progress
than their
counterparts in
traditional public schools.
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.
There is also a dearth of training programs specifically geared toward charter leaders, who tend to have more responsibilities
than their
counterparts in
traditional public schools.
CREDO found that, on average, students in New Jersey charter
schools are making greater gains in both reading and math
than their
counterparts in
traditional public schools.
The case alleges the way the state funds charter
schools is unconstitutional because less money is allocated per student
than to their
traditional public school counterparts.
Though discrepancies from the pay scale are frequent, it lets some Franklin teachers top out at salary levels higher
than are available to their
counterparts in
traditional Orleans
public schools.
The charter students in Detroit gain over three months per year more
than their
counterparts at
traditional public schools.»