The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

Helen Ladd, Charles Clotfelter () and John B. Holbein

No 21078, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In this paper, we examine the evolution of the charter school sector in North Carolina between 1999 and 2012 through the lens of a market model. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter schools, the quality of the match between parental preferences in charter schools relative to the quality of match in traditional public schools, and the distribution of test score performance across charter schools relative those in traditional public schools serving similar students over time. Taken together, our findings imply that the charter schools in North Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools.

JEL-codes: H52 H75 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04
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Published as Helen F. Ladd & Charles T. Clotfelter & John B. Holbein, 2017. "The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina," Education Finance and Policy, vol 12(4), pages 536-563.

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