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Rottimer t1_j9igak6 wrote

Reply to comment by Neoliberalism2024 in Parents fume over Governor Hochul’s charter school expansion proposal | amNewYork by barweis

You should read that study, and pay particular attention to what they're comparing.

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Neoliberalism2024 t1_j9jmxci wrote

It compares charter school performance to public school, and does it on a like-for-like basis (e.g., race, poverty, disability), including a break down for each.

I’m assuming you didn’t both to read it?

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Rottimer t1_j9joh1c wrote

No, it doesn’t. It compares each charter school student to a supposed average of equivalent traditional public school students from the traditional public school the charter school student came from. As a result it is ignoring about a third of all traditional public schools. Because it’s measuring improvement from one year to another, it’s ignoring any child in a charter school that has been there only one year including those kicked out after a year or those that didn’t transfer from a traditional public school. The report acknowledges that the feeder schools its comparing is closer in Demographics to the traditional public school system than the students they’re comparing them to.

It’s a report that uses a convoluted system the stack the deck against traditional public schools and excuses that by arguing it’s comparing how particular students would do in public vs charter schools. And I’m not surprised when they say who funded the study.

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