Sentences with phrase «worse than their traditional public school counterparts»

Sixty percent of the charter schools studied performed worse than their traditional public school counterparts.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»