{"id":3380,"date":"2023-06-09T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:02:34","slug":"education-watch-charter-schools-are-working-but-how-do-we-improve-them-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch \u2013 Charter Schools Are Working, But How Do We Improve Them Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-charter-schools-are-working-but-how-do-we-improve-them-here\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-charter-schools-are-working-but-how-do-we-improve-them-here\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>From Stanford University\u2019s gold-standard CREDO study:<\/b><span> \u201cThe typical charter school student\u2026had reading and math gains that outpaced their peers in the traditional public schools\u2026 Black and Hispanic students in charter schools display substantially higher growth when compared to the TPS students of the same racial\/ethnic group.\u201d Read more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/national-study-of-1-8-million-charter-students-shows-charter-pupils-outperform-peers-at-traditional-public-schools\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ncss3.stanford.edu\/student-results\/multi-state-results\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ncss3.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Credo-NCSS3-Report.pdf\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4316\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Staff-Quinton-Klabon-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wisconsin charters showed slight gains, but nowhere near the extraordinary pace<\/b><span> in New York, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Missouri, or Washington. Why?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>It\u2019s <\/span><b>not because they take the best students<\/b><span>. Students entering charter schools actually are lower-performing than their peers (p. 26).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>It may be because we do not build chains. Charter brands like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/success-academy-students-outscore-every-district-in-new-york-state-on-annual-english-and-math-exams\"><span>Success<\/span><\/a><span> that focus on a single state <\/span><b>add 1.5 months to student learning<\/b><span> (p. 107), far exceeding 1-offs (p. 84). Wisconsin only has 1 chain, Rocketship, which suffers compared to its well-funded California counterparts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>So, horribly inadequate charter funding is the culprit<\/b><span>. Wisconsin districts get about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.wi.gov\/sfs\/statistical\/cost-revenue\/comparative\"><span>$13,000<\/span><\/a><span> per non-special-needs student compared to about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.wi.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imce\/sfs\/pdf\/FY23-ChoiceOptionsFundingTable.pdf\"><span>$9,000<\/span><\/a><span> for charters. That\u2019s a million-dollar gap per school! <\/span><b>Even <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/data.publiccharters.org\/digest\/charter-school-data-digest\/how-are-charter-schools-financed\"><b>average<\/b><\/a><b> national funding would help great schools like United Community Center and The Lincoln Academy expand and perfect. Instead, charters are beginning to <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2023\/04\/14\/penfield-montessori-academy-to-close-at-end-of-school-year\/70111980007\"><b>die<\/b><\/a><b>. That will quicken if we do not significantly raise charter (and voucher) funding this budget cycle. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-charter-schools-are-working-but-how-do-we-improve-them-here\/ From Stanford University\u2019s gold-standard CREDO study: \u201cThe typical charter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}