Are low-performing students more likely to exit charter schools? Evidence from New York City and Denver, Colorado

Marcus A. Winters, Grant Clayton and Dick M. Carpenter

Economics of Education Review, 2017, vol. 56, issue C, 110-117

Abstract: A common criticism of charter schools is that they systematically remove or “counsel out” their lowest performing students. However, relatively little is currently known about whether low-performing students are in fact more likely to exit charter schools than surrounding traditional public schools. We use longitudinal student-level data from two large urban school systems that prior research has found to have effective charter school sectors–New York City and Denver, Colorado–to evaluate whether there is a differential relationship between low-performance on standardized test scores and the probability that students exit their schools by sector attended. We find no evidence of a differential relationship between prior performance and the likelihood of exiting a school by sector. Low-performing students in both cities are either equally likely or less likely to exit their schools than are student in traditional public schools.

Keywords: Educational economics; School choice; Charter schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.12.002

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