Do charter schools make a difference?

Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) is now the DC Charter School Alliance!

Please visit www.dccharters.org to learn about our new organization and to see the latest news and information related to DC charter schools.

The FOCUS DC website is online to see historic information, but is not actively updated.

The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential
Do charter schools make a difference?  Check out this new video on D.C. charters
By Mark Tapscott
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Charter schools are public-funded and independently run public schools that provide a genuine alternative to the typical dreary,  teacher-union debacle found in most big-city public school systems.

But do they make a difference in the academic performance of students? Well, in the District of Columbia, 38 percent of all public school students attend charters. Those charters have higher grades, higher attendance and higher graduation rates than regular DC public schools.

There are reasons for this performance differential. Check out this new video that explains those reasons:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Do-charter-schools-make-a-difference-Check-out-this-new-video-on-DC-charters-83489762.html

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