Charter school authorizers and student achievement

Deven Carlson, Lesley Lavery and John F. Witte

Economics of Education Review, 2012, vol. 31, issue 2, 254-267

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the relationship between charter school authorizers and student achievement. We perform this analysis using a 10-year panel dataset from Minnesota, a state that permits four distinct types of authorizers—local school boards, postsecondary institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the Minnesota Department of Education. The results of the analysis indicate that there is no statistically significant relationship between charter school authorizing type and mean levels of student achievement. However, the analysis also reveals that schools authorized by nonprofit organizations exhibit substantially more variability in achievement than schools authorized by local school boards.

Keywords: Charter school; School governance; Student achievement; Enrollment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.03.008

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