Goldwater
Institute | March 15, 2004
In a study released today by the Goldwater Institute, Human Resources Policy
Corporation president Lewis C. Solmon and Pete Goldschmidt of the UCLA Center
for the Study of Evaluation provide strong evidence that the superior performance
of Arizona charter school students is not the result of “creaming”
the brightest students from traditional public schools. To the contrary, charter
school students typically begin with lower test scores but show overall annual
achievement growth roughly three points higher than traditional public school
students.
Philadelphia
Inquirer | March 10, 2004
The Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition will release a study today
that says the city's charter high schools outperform traditional campuses and
the school district should expand the charter options for high school students.
Report
of the California Legislative Analyst's Office | January 20, 2004
A report, published January 20, 2004 of the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s
Office of the California State Legislature. The most recent evaluation deemed
charter schools cost-effective—finding that charter schools achieve academic
results similar to those of traditional public schools even though they obtain
significantly less state and federal categorical funding.
Study
referenced in the National Bureau of Economic Statistics | January 2004
In 1996-7, North Carolina had no charter schools. Three years later its 91
charter schools had enrolled 14,899 students. Charter school competition raised
the composite test scores in district schools. The gain was relatively large,
roughly two to five times greater than the gain from decreasing the student-faculty
ratio by 1and is a move that would not require any additional spending.
New
Report Gives Evidence of Charters’ Impact, Center for Education Reform
| May 5, 2004
CER’s Charter Schools Today: Changing the Face of American Education:
Statistics, Stories and Insights chronicles the impact of charters, compiling
four separate reports that deal with different aspects of charter operations
in the United States. These reports track the growth of schools and enrollment,
look at how schools operate, examine the successes and obstacles schools
face, and, finally, demonstrate how charters are examples of the most accountable
schools in all of public education.
Comparison
of Traditional Public Schools and Charter Schools on Retention, School Switching,
and Achievement Growth Goldwater Institute | Lewis C. Solomon and Pete
Goldschmidt | March 15, 2004
"This study examines nearly 158,000 test scores of more than 60,000
Arizona students attending 873 charter and traditional public schools statewide
over a three-year period. Its purpose is to determine the net effect of
attending either type of school on Stanford Achievement Test, V9, (SAT-9)
Reading achievement scores and total achievement growth over time."
Groundswell:
How Charter Schools are Transforming the Education Landscape American Legislative Exchange Council | Lewis
C. Solmon and Pete Goldschmidt | March 15, 2004
"State legislators must understand how the charter school movement
fits into the overall education reform movement, and why charters should
now take center stage."
Assessing
California's Charter Schools California Legislative Analyst's Office | January
20, 2004
"California charter schools are "cost-effective-achieving academic
results similar to those of traditional public schools even though they
obtain less state and federal categorical funding."
Charter
School Laws Across the States: Ranking and Scorecard Center for Education Reform | 2004
"The 41 laws and 2,996 schools whose operations, successes and struggles
are tracked regularly, provide a deep understanding of what kind of law
it takes to create and sustain healthy charter schools."
Charter
Schools Today: Changing the Face of American Education Center for Education Reform | Jeanne Allen, Meghan
E. Cotter and Anna Varghese Marcucio | 2004
"We know from individual state data, reports and evaluations that charter
schools are outpacing non-charter public school student achievement, despite
fewer resources and mounting obstacles."
Charter
School Authorizing: Are States Making the Grade? Thomas B. Fordham Foundation | Louann Bierlein
Palmer and Rebecca Gau | June 2003
The first major study of charter school authorizing, it examines the dynamics
of school districts and private groups that sponsor charter schools.
A
Decade of Public Charter Schools SRI International. | Lee Anderson, Nancy Adelman,
Kara Finnigan, Lynyonne Cotton,
Mary Beth Donnelly and Tiffany Price | November 2002
First evaluation for the U.S. Department of Education regarding the federal
Public Schools Charter Program, which "is intended to support the planning,
development, and initial implementation of charter schools, providing relatively
unencumbered seed funding for states with charter school laws to distribute
to charter school groups during the first three years of a charter school's
existence."
School
Choice in the Real World: Lessons from Arizona Charter Schools American Enterprise Institute | Frederick M.
Hess, et. al. | March 1, 2001
"The charter school is fast becoming one of the most significant attempts
at public education reform in this country … Using the state of Arizona
as a case study, the editors examine the experiences of actual charter school
operators, social scientific analysis, policy discussions, and criticism
and forecasting for the future."
The
State of Charter Schools 2000: National Study of Charter Schools U.S. Department of Education | Office of Educational
Research and Improvement | January 2000
"The study addresses three major research questions: How have charter
schools been implemented? Under what conditions, if any, have they improved
student achievement? What impact have they had on public education?"
At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question:
"Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?"
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