Nearly 20 years after Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law, charters in the Twin Cities continue to perform worse, are more segregated than traditional public schools and are forcing those traditional public schools to become more segregated.
Those are the findings of a new report called "Failed Promises" -- from the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota.
But the conclusions are not necessarily swaying those who run charters.
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Orfield's research team gathered test scores and other data from all traditional public and charter schools in the Twin Cities. That other data included poverty measurements, as a way of lining up schools in similar economic situations.
What they found was charter schools performed worse than traditional public schools.
To read the entire report, click here.
The report also looks at schools' racial make-up, and includes a map that plots all metro area charter schools. It shows segregated schools far outnumber integrated - and in some cases, predominately white schools are surrounded by predominately non-white schools.
To see a map of Twin Cities charter schools, click here.
This is the result of charters locating in poor neighborhoods where kids are having bad experiences in the public schools, Orfield says.
"Parents that have had a bad experience with the public schools will take almost any choice, and they will move to the charter school. This will pull enrollment out of the public school, so you have two schools racing towards more segregated schools - and both types of schools are doing badly," he says. ...
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