Stanford report finds good and bad in Pennsylvania charter schools
Pennsylvania has a larger percentage of high-performing charter schools than the national average, but it also has more underperforming ones.
As a result, Pennsylvania charter students on average are lagging behind students in regular public schools.
Those are the key findings of Stanford University researchers who recently studied four years of test scores to complete one of the most detailed, independent studies of Pennsylvania charter school performance ever conducted.
Their finding: Though students at more than a quarter of the state's charter schools made greater academic gains than their peers at traditional public schools, those at almost half did worse.
