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Time for Charter Schools?
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Date: September 12, 2017 06:11PM
from today's WSJ:
New Orleans schools - 100% charter
Washington D.C. 46% of public students in charter schools
Denver 42%
Indianapolis 53%
Lower costs, better academic performance - what's not to like!?!
Charter Schools Are Flourishing on Their Silver Anniversary
The first one, in St. Paul, Minn., opened in 1992. Since then they’ve spread and proven their success.
By David Osborne
Sept. 7, 2017 7:25 p.m. ET
On Sept. 8, 1992, the first charter school opened, in St. Paul, Minn. Twenty-five years later, some 7,000 of these schools serve about three million students around the U.S. Their growth has become controversial among those wedded to the status quo, but charters undeniably are effective, especially in urban areas. After four years in a charter, urban students learn about 50% more a year than demographically similar students in traditional public schools, according to a 2015 report from Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes.
The American cities that have most improved their schools are those that have embraced charters wholeheartedly. Their success suggests that policy makers should stop thinking of charters as an innovation around the edges of the public-school system—and realize that they simply are a better way to organize public education.
New Orleans, which will be 100% charters next year, is America’s fastest-improving city when it comes to education. Test scores, graduation and dropout rates, college-going rates and independent studies all tell the same story: The city’s schools have doubled or tripled their effectiveness in the decade since the state began turning them over to charter operators.
New Orleans schools - 100% charter
Washington D.C. 46% of public students in charter schools
Denver 42%
Indianapolis 53%
Lower costs, better academic performance - what's not to like!?!
Charter Schools Are Flourishing on Their Silver Anniversary
The first one, in St. Paul, Minn., opened in 1992. Since then they’ve spread and proven their success.
By David Osborne
Sept. 7, 2017 7:25 p.m. ET
On Sept. 8, 1992, the first charter school opened, in St. Paul, Minn. Twenty-five years later, some 7,000 of these schools serve about three million students around the U.S. Their growth has become controversial among those wedded to the status quo, but charters undeniably are effective, especially in urban areas. After four years in a charter, urban students learn about 50% more a year than demographically similar students in traditional public schools, according to a 2015 report from Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes.
The American cities that have most improved their schools are those that have embraced charters wholeheartedly. Their success suggests that policy makers should stop thinking of charters as an innovation around the edges of the public-school system—and realize that they simply are a better way to organize public education.
New Orleans, which will be 100% charters next year, is America’s fastest-improving city when it comes to education. Test scores, graduation and dropout rates, college-going rates and independent studies all tell the same story: The city’s schools have doubled or tripled their effectiveness in the decade since the state began turning them over to charter operators.
Re: Time for Charter Schools?
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Date: September 12, 2017 06:45PM
Never happen in Fairfax County. The teachers union run the schools and they will kill their own students before they agree to anything that holds them accountable.
FCPS, bad and getting worse.
FCPS, bad and getting worse.