From the abstract: School choice allows families to choose schools that are more suited to their children. These choices may affect non-academic outcomes, including students’ mental health. We empirically examine the relationship between school choice and mental health using two methods. First, we use difference-in-differences to estimate the effects of state voucher and charter school laws on...
Good news for NC charters
A bill passed by the state Senate on Wednesday would force school districts to share more of their tax funding with charter schools, but critics say it may open the coffers unfairly.
Why charter school opponents are clueless: you can’t argue with evolution
The new numbers are out: almost 3 million kids are now enrolled in 6,700 charter schools across the U.S. According to the report, if we don’t include charters that opened in Fall 2014, 4% of all charters were closed down last year (223/(6,732-501)). Why did they close down? Simple: charter school opponents have ensured that charter schools face far more scrutiny in terms of how they operate...
Charter schools are better, we just don’t want to admit it
I think the conventional wisdom on charter school evidence could be summed up thusly: ”some charter schools appear to do very well, but on average charters do no better and no worse than public schools”. But I would like to propose a better conventional wisdom: “some charter schools appear to do very well, and on average charters do better at educating poor students and black students”. If the...