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In this Details from the Dashboard report, we examine public schools that serve students on Native American lands. Public charter schools provide promising opportunities for Native American tribes to create new public school options that directly meet the unique needs of children living in and around Bureau of Indian Affairs land. The National Alliance for Public Charter… Continue reading Details from the Dashboard: Public Charter Schools on Bureau of Indian Affairs Land

This report provides summaries of new public charter school studies released since 2010. The public charter school student performance studies examined in this report are studies that use longitudinal student-level data to examine public charter schools across the country, from national studies on charter management organizations (CMOs) and the KIPP model, to studies in different… Continue reading Public Charter Schools Success: A Summary of the Current Research on Public Charters’ Effectiveness at Improving Student Achievement

Twenty years after the first charter school opened in St. Paul, MN, the sector continues to grow. Over 500 new public charter schools opened their doors for the 2012-13 school year. Compared with the 2011-12 school year, an estimated additional 275,000 students are attending public charter schools in the 2012-13 school year. With the addition… Continue reading Estimated Number of Public Charter Schools & Students, Dashboard Data from 2012-2013

In this Details from the Dashboard report, we examine race/ethnicity breakouts for public charter schools and traditional public schools at the state and the school district level. The data in this report indicate that in the large majority of states, the race/ethnicity student demographics of charter schools are almost identical to those of the surrounding school district.