scholarly journals The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Ladd ◽  
Charles Clotfelter ◽  
John Holbein
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Charter School ◽  
School Sector

scholarly journals The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Ladd ◽  
Charles T. Clotfelter ◽  
John B. Holbein
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Traditional Public Schools ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Performance Gains

A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In this paper, we examine through the lens of a market model the evolution of the charter school sector in North Carolina between 1999 and 2012. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter schools, patterns in student match quality by schools’ racial composition, and the distributions of test score performance gains compared to those in traditional public schools. In addition, we use student fixed effects models to examine plausibly causal measures of charter school effectiveness. Our findings indicate that charter schools in North Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools and that despite improvements in the charter school sector over time, charter schools are still no more effective on average than traditional public schools.

For Grades or Money? Charter School Failure in North Carolina

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Paino ◽  
Linda A. Renzulli ◽  
Rebecca L. Boylan ◽  
Christen L. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Charter School ◽  
School Failure

Washington View

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
School Voucher ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Voucher Programs ◽  
Every Student Succeeds Act

Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, comes to the job with hopes of creating school voucher programs and expanding the charter school sector. But she will likely find that she has limited power to promote that agenda. While she may be able to convince some states to launch modest new voucher experiments and while she can take advantage of her bully pulpit to advocate on behalf of the charter movement, she inherits an office that — thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act — gives her far less influence over educational policy making than her predecessors enjoyed.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Ambitions in the Public Sector

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Linda A. Renzulli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
The North

In this article, I study charter schools as social innovations within the population of established public educational institutions. I begin by briefly outlining the history of public schools in the United States. Organizational theories are applied to explain the perpetuation of the structure of public schools since World War II. Next, I delineate the characteristics of educational reform movements in the United States by focusing on the charter school movement. Then, I use an evolutionary approach to study the environmental characteristics that drive the perceived need for innovation and the promotion of experimentation. Using data compiled from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the Census Bureau, and North Carolina State Data Center, I examine the characteristics of the local environment that promotes the submission of charter school applications in North Carolina over a three-year period, 1996-1998. It is shown that school districts in need of school choice do have a higher mean charter school submission rate. Also, some community characteristics and available resources are important for the initial stage of charter school formation.

scholarly journals The Fiscal Externalities of Charter Schools: Evidence from North Carolina

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Ladd ◽  
John D. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Detailed Balance ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
School Pupil ◽  
Fiscal Externalities ◽  
State And Local

A significant criticism of the charter school movement is that funding for charter schools diverts money away from traditional public schools. The magnitude of such adverse fiscal externalities depends in part on the nature of state and local funding policies. In this paper, we examine the fiscal effects of charter schools on both urban and nonurban school districts in North Carolina. We base our analysis on detailed balance sheet information for a sample of school districts that experienced substantial charter growth since the statewide cap on charters was raised in 2011. We find a large and negative fiscal impact in excess of $500 per traditional public school pupil in our one urban school district, which translates into an average fiscal cost of about $3,600 for each student enrolled in charter schools. We estimate comparable to somewhat larger fiscal externalities per charter school pupil for two nonurban districts.

Big money and its influence on K-12 education: An interview with Sarah Reckhow

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (8) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Local School ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
School Sector ◽  
K 12

Kappan’s editor talks with Michigan State University’s Sarah Reckhow about her research into the ways wealthy private philanthropies have influenced K-12 education in recent years. As Reckhow explains, not only have Gates, Broad, Walton, and other big foundations spent unprecedented amounts of money to support their favored reform strategies — such as expanding the charter school sector, raising academic standards, and evaluating teachers’ effectiveness — but they’ve maximized their influence by coordinating their messages, funneling their money to specific states and districts, pushing for changes in state and federal policy, and (most recently) contributing to local school board candidates.

scholarly journals Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cohodes ◽  
Elizabeth Setren ◽  
Christopher Walters
Keyword(s):  
Charter School ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Successful Schools ◽  
School Sector
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