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  1. PDF LITERATURE REVIEW RESEARCH COMPARING CHARTER SCHOOLS AND ...

    During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they

  2. PDF Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence

    Excuses charter schools generate test score gains, but their controversial disciplinary practices are not a necessary a condition for academic success. Charter school teachers tend to be less qualified and more likely to leave the profession than traditional public school teachers, though the labor market implications are understudied.

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    Affiliation: School of Education; Abstract. Charter schools have been promoted as being more innovative than traditional public schools, but that is not always the case. Change agents can transform either type of public school. Both types of schools can also rely on traditional practices, which are not as innovative as they are reliable.

  4. The Battle Over Charter Schools

    First, a definition. The "charter" in charter schools is a contract, agreed upon between those who run the school and the entity that authorizes the school's existence (which ranges from school districts to for-profit companies to boards of education).Charter schools are public schools, tuition-free and open to all on a first-come, first-serve basis, or by lottery.

  5. PDF Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap

    sector, charter schools and their effects on students have been a large part of the education policy conversation in the past two decades. Though charter schools were originally envisioned as laboratories for testing educational practices, their proponents O n average, charter schools perform at about the same level as traditional public schools.

  6. PDF The U.S. Charter School Landscape: Extant Literature, Gaps in ...

    The U. S. charter school landscape 51 attracted state and federal dollars for expansion and turning around of low-performing schools (Wohlstetter et al., 2013). While proponents claim charter schools represent an experiment in innovation, the charter school movement is not without critics. Some have argued vehemently ...

  7. Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive ...

    Sarah R. Cohodes & Katharine S. Parham. Working Paper 28477. DOI 10.3386/w28477. Issue Date February 2021. Revision Date May 2021. This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students' academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of charter schools on nearby traditional ...

  8. PDF Charter Schools: a Survey of Research on Their Characteristics and

    9 The city of New Orleans abolished traditional public schools effective with the 2014/15 academic year with public education in the city now offered entirely by charter schools. students, followed by Detroit, Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and Houston. These 30 cities together serve 34% of U.S. charter students.

  9. "The Impacts of Charter Schools on Traditional Public School Districts

    Charter schools are a fast-growing trend in alternative education policy across the United States. As of the 2015-16 school year, seven percent of public schools were charter schools. Between the 2000-01 and the 2015-16 school years, the total number of charter schools across the United States increased by approximately 350 percent. In some states, up to nine percent of students are enrolled ...

  10. Challenge and Opportunity: The Impact of Charter Schools on School

    Executive Summary of a report which is one in a series from the National Study of Charter Schools (the Study). The Study is a 4-year research effort to document and analyze the charter school movement, through an annual survey of all charter schools in the country, successive site visits to 91 charter schools in 10 states, a student achievement testing program in a sample of charter schools ...

  11. Charter Schools and Socio-Economic Gaps in Education

    Charter Schools and Socio-Economic Gaps in Education. ( PDF) ( DOC) (JPG) December 20, 2014. Timothy Gonzalez [1] An inherent gap within the American educational system exists as a direct result of socio-economic disparities present in today's society. This rift is best highlighted in today's college admissions process, which struggles to ...

  12. The Effect of Charter Schools on Students in Traditional Public Schools

    The 11 studies vary somewhat in methodological approaches, and the particular methodology may affect the results. As noted above, none of them are as rigorous as the randomized experimental studies of charter schools' direct effects, and researchers may reasonably disagree about how much stock to put in their findings, or which specific non-experimental approach is best.

  13. Charter Schools: Policy and Practice

    system (AASA, 1992) and Kolderie's (1990) thesis stated that better schools cou ld only be created after withdrawal from the "exclusive franchise in public education" (p. 13). This article will discuss the concept of leaders as change agents. It will also address ... charter school law in North Carolina legalized schools as individual ...

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    The longer students remain in charter schools, the more dramatic the results. The evidence is ubiquitous. The same report cited by Ms. Ewing regarding racial balance found that charter schools had ...

  15. Regis University ePublications at Regis University

    The author discusses the more common. advantages and objections to charter schools, charter school efforts with students with. learning disabilities, and an examination of charter school teachers, to include the degree. of parental satisfaction expressed by parents and students involved with charter schools.

  16. Can We Stop Fighting About Charter Schools?

    When many people think of "charter schools," they think of the glowing profiles or troubling revelations at networks like Success Academy. But unlike Success Academy, most charter schools are ...

  17. Charter Schools Thesis Statement

    Charter Schools Thesis Statement. Decent Essays. 1010 Words. 5 Pages. Open Document. Chicago charter high school has a higher standard of education and curriculum for students and to a pathway to early collage. The Three main points that I will be explaining in this essay are: Charter schools benefits students and help students achieve by ...

  18. School segregation is increasing, study finds. Charter growth is a

    Become a Chalkbeat sponsor. Between 1991 and 2019, Black-white segregation increased by 3.5 percentage points in the 533 districts that serve at least 2,500 Black students, an increase of 25% from ...

  19. What is the best thesis for an argument essay about charter schools

    Expert Answers. A good thesis on charter schools might relate to their impact on the life chances of under-privileged children. Supporters of charter schools argue that they greatly improve the ...

  20. Charter School Essays: Examples, Topics, & Outlines

    The study finds the following data: First, in 1998-99, most charter schools had a slightly lower teacher to student ratio than did all public schools in the 27 charter states (in 1997-98). The median student/teacher ratio for charter schools was 16.0 as compared to 17.2 for all public schools. (Fourth Year, 1)

  21. Charters are one way our public school system ensures every kid gets

    There were over 31,000 charter school applications submitted this year, and over 18,000 of them came from Providence. Parents are begging for more public school options for their children.

  22. ASU's charter network helping launch microschools across the country

    1:38. Arizona State University's charter school network is working to expand its footprint and help launch microschools across the country. It started to do so this past school year with a ...

  23. A Plan to Help Harlem Students Build Wealth: Start Them Off With

    A first-of-its-kind program will invest $10,000 grants on behalf of children in Harlem charter schools with the money released when recipients reach the age of 25.

  24. Judge dismisses lawsuit involving new public charter schools

    A district court judge in Helena last week resolved a legal dispute between the Montana Quality Education Coalition and the state Office of Public Instruction, ending litigation over the agency's implementation of a new public charter school law.. The dismissal of the case, ordered May 10 by Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Michael McMahon, preserves the court's earlier ...

  25. Final 2024 Accountability Manual

    The purpose of this communication is to inform school districts and open-enrollment charter schools (school systems) about the publication of the final rule adopting the 2024 Accountability Manual. Overview The 2024 Accountability Manual describes the 2024 accountability system and explains how information from various sources is used to measure district and campus performance, assign ...

  26. Governor Proclaims National Charter Schools Week 2024

    PDF • 1.44 MB - May 14, 2024. NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLS WEEK. 2024. BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, charter schools are public schools that increase learning opportunities for all students and provide parents and students with expanded opportunities within the public school system; and.

  27. U.S. Department of Education Announces 161 Students to be Honored as

    Of the 3.7 million students expected to graduate from high school this year, more than 5,700 candidates qualified for the 2024 awards determined by outstanding performance on the College Board SAT or ACT exams or through nominations made by chief state school officers, other partner recognition organizations and YoungArts, the National ...

  28. Watch: Charter schools to get $153m in new funding in Budget 2024

    Up to 50 new or converted charter schools will be funded out of Budget 2024, the coalition government has announced. It has set aside $153 million of new funding for the publicly-funded private schools over the next four years. The money will establish 15 new charter schools and convert 35 state schools in 2025 and 2026, depending on demand and ...

  29. Quest Charter Academy appeal will go before state board this week

    Zach Roth. Peoria Journal Star. The fate of Peoria's Quest Charter Academy will be in the hands of the Illinois State Board of Education, which will vote this week on the school's appeal against ...

  30. School start times, partisan school boards, vouchers: New Florida laws

    1. Later school start times for Palm Beach County middle, high schoolers. Summary: The law, HB 733, requires that middle school classes don't begin earlier than 8 a.m. and that high school classes ...