Black students, English learners perform far better in charter schools, Stanford research finds

The College Fix reports:

Charter schools took a long time to get approved by voters in deep-blue, overwhelmingly white Washington state.

Their very existence was under constant threat until the state Supreme Court ruled last fall that charters could constitutionally receive lottery money from the state. That came three years after the same court blocked charters from accepting general-fund revenue.

But new research by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes has posed a problem for charter opponents in Washington state.

Using three years of data, the researchers contradicted a common argument against charter schools: that their students end up performing worse than those in traditional public schools.

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