Poor and Minority Communities Gain Big from Charter Schools

The National Interest reports:

A new study on education outcomes has just weakened one of the key talking points for charter school opponents. Four years ago, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (Credo) compared charter students to those at regular public schools and found that charter school students often performed worse than their public school counterparts. The study’s results were shouted from the rooftops by groups looking to discredit the charter school movement. This year, however, Credo released an updated study and found that charter schools have made significant gains over the past few years: Charter students are now eight days ahead of their traditional public school counterparts on average, while remaining roughly even on math.