Evaluating Claims that Charter Schools Practice “Cream Skimming” and “Pushout”

To evaluate the legitimacy of these concerns, in a just-published study we used longitudinal, student-level data from Tennessee and North Carolina to examine the entrance and exit patterns of students into and out of charter schools. We also compared the patterns of charter schools to those of magnet schools (public schools offering specialized instruction and programs, usually admitting students based on academic requirements), open-enrollment schools
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