Charter Schools and Student Achievement in Florida

Autor/in	Sass, Tim R.
Titel	Charter Schools and Student Achievement in Florida
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 1 (2006) 1, S.91-122 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/edfp.2006.1.1.91
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Reading Achievement; Academic Achievement; Nonprofit Organizations; Longitudinal Studies; Program Effectiveness; Educational Quality; Public Schools; Competition; Comparative Analysis; At Risk Students; Mathematics Achievement; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Leseleistung; Schulleistung; Nonprofit-Organisation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Wettkampf; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz
Abstract	I utilize longitudinal data covering all public school students in Florida to study the performance of charter schools and their competitive impact on traditional public schools. Controlling for student-level fixed effects, I find achievement initially is lower in charters. However, by their fifth year of operation new charter schools reach a par with the average traditional public school in math and produce higher reading achievement scores than their traditional public school counterparts. Among charters, those targeting at-risk and special education students demonstrate lower student achievement, while charter schools managed by for-profit entities perform no differently on average than charters run by nonprofits. Controlling for preexisting traditional public school quality, competition from charter schools is associated with modest increases in math scores and unchanged reading scores in nearby traditional public schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10