Charter School Accountability
In a comprehensive response to the United States Department of Education's program Race to the Top, the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) indicated that a review of evidence from studies of charter schools showed:
- charter schools do not differ from regular public schools in average student achievement;
- they have not improved the educational performance of urban, low-income, minority children;
- charters have higher student turnover than regular public schools; and
- competition from charters has not improved public school performance.
Additionally, there is no research evidence to show that charter schools, reconstituted schools, or privately managed schools are inherently more innovative than other public schools. In fact, traditional public schools are engaged in a tremendous amount of research-based innovation. Career academies, cyber learning opportunities, early college high schools and dual enrollment (attending public school and being home-schooled simultaneously) are a few of the innovations that are taking place in traditional public schools. The key to innovation is an ethos of leveraging resources in new ways to meet both ongoing and emerging needs among children.
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