Opinion | Congress Beats Up Charter Schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Last year a Harvard study on changes in student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 2005 through 2017 reported that black eighth graders at charter schools were six months ahead of their district public school peers.
50% : The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is now analyzing enrollment data across the country and says that so far every state they have data for has shown student enrollment at traditional public schools declining even as enrollment at charters increases.
48% : The larger point is that charters are public schools and should be treated the same -- including in funding -- as traditional public schools.
33% : Charter schools say this could make schools that rely on private vendors for, say, food services or curricula ineligible for any federal funding at all.

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