The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently released an early look at results from the 2011-2012 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS).SASS is administered every four years and provides the best set of statistics on the characteristics of teachers and principals across the country. The table below presents information from the 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 administrations… Continue reading New Public Charter School Teacher and Principal Statistics
Since it was founded in 2005, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has advocated for high-quality public charter school laws. With the support of a working group of individuals with deep expertise in public charter school law, NAPCS released a model charter law in 2009, whose 20 essential components are focused on creating and… Continue reading Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws Between 2010 and 2013
CREDO released a new two volume study today titled Charter School Growth and Expansion. The title actually masks the ambitious range of research questions tackled and important findings presented. Though the study presents data on patterns of growth and expansion in the charter sector, with particular attention given to networks of schools, the report is… Continue reading New Study from CREDO on Public Charter School Growth, Expansion, and Impact
Education Week’s Charters & Choice blog featured analysis of voting patterns on Washington state’s narrowly approved public charter schools measure. Central to the analysis was a county-by-county breakdown of the presidential race (below)… …compared to the tallies for the ballot measure (below). The results of the ballot measure defied some traditional partisan, geographic splits within the state. Check out… Continue reading Analysis of the Washington State Public Charter School Ballot Measure
For the past 20 years, the public charter school movement has been a leader in innovation and education reform. By unleashing an environment of creativity in states and communities, charter schools have demonstrated that children of all backgrounds are capable of achieving high standards and that college and career readiness is a goal attainable for… Continue reading A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Charter School Communities, Seventh Edition
Yesterday we released our annual market share report. To compile the list of school districts with the highest market share, we collected public school enrollment data to find districts where the largest proportions of students are attending public charter schools. New Orleans Remains Number One in Market Share: An astounding 76 percent of public school… Continue reading Districts with the Highest Percentage of Public Charter School Students
Public charter schools, and KIPP in particular, have experienced persistent critiques that when charter schools produce positive performance outcomes, the results are driven by assumed charter school policies that counsel out low-performing students and restrict replacement enrollment (see Kahlenberg and Miron). This student attrition issue for charter schools is complicated. On the one hand, there… Continue reading New Study on KIPP Indicates that Student Attrition Does Not Eliminate Large Achievement Effect
The table below is an update to our Details from the Dashboard report on CMOs and EMOs with data from the 2010-2011 academic year. Schools operated by non-profit charter management organizations (CMOs) continue to experience the highest levels of growth in terms of the number of schools and number of students enrolled. Of note, CMO… Continue reading Growth in Charter Schools Operated by Management Organizations
In only twenty years, the charter sector has grown from a single charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota to approximately 5,600 public charter schools serving more than 2 million students in nearly every state in the nation. Moreover, hundreds of thousands more are waiting for seats in charter schools to become available. The demand for… Continue reading Beyond City Limits: Expanding Public Charter Schools in Rural America
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