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Charters Revisited: It’s a Broad Spectrum Out There or, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Charter horror stories in Newark and Detroit mask a Stanford CREDO report that finds charters outperforming traditional public schools in many areas of the country. That same CREDO report however is critiqued as statistically flawed; in truth charters may benefit kids of better organized low income families, but their selection processes leave the more intractable of the poor languishing in low performing urban schools. Continue reading
Posted in Charter Schools, School Reform
Tagged charter debate, charter success, charters pull funding, CREDO report, Detroit charter schools, kids of poverty, low-income students, market solutions for school failure, Massachusetts charter schools, organized low income families, public schools flounder fiscally, substandard public schools
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