Starving Charters: A new study shows the funding bias against non-traditional schools.

One of the challenges facing charter schools, particularly in California (where we already spend 20% less on education than the national average) is unfair denial of funds. We’ve had two meetings in the last month that have featured a detailed review of our school budget as well as our plans for rolling out new programs. This article sheds a little more light on why we are conservative and careful with our spending.

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Charter Schools and Student Performance

Now for something more current… Read this fantastic oped piece by the Wall Street Journal’s Paul Peterson. He reviews some of the research that’s out there on the benefits of school choice. He also effectively debunks the faulty studies and falsehoods being used to shake public confidence in charter schools recently. Don’t miss the unique data Peterson presents on how school choice has worked in other countries:

“They discovered that the greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading. Their findings imply that expanding charters to include 50% of all students would eventually raise American students’ math scores to be competitive with the highest-scoring countries in the world.”

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