Mile-high scores: Colorado charter success.

AuthorKoteskey, Tyler
PositionCharter schools - Brief article

Two recent analyses show that Colorado charter school students are outdoing their public school counterparts on state and national standardized tests. The Colorado Department of Education's latest study of charter schools, which serve more than 12 percent of the state's K-12 students, reveals that they are more diverse, spend less money per pupil, and do better on the state standardized test than Colorado public schools do.

Meanwhile, Matthew Ladner of the Foundation for Excellence in Education recently analyzed charter students' scores on the nation's best-regarded standardized test, the National Assessment for Educational Progress. He compared them to the state's overall score, which mosdy measures public-school performance. Ladner found that Colorado charters beat every other state's overall rankings in...

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