Learning from charters

Acrash course on the last 20 years of New York education reform would include the following incontrovertible statement: Charter schools have been a godsend for low-income black and Latino students. So affirms Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes in a brand new study. The whip-smart eduwonks found that from 2011 through 2016, students enrolled in New York City charter schools outpaced their peers in traditional district-run schools — and a subset of charters run by larger organizations did even better. Kids in networks like Success Academy, KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools got the equivalent of 97 extra days in schooling in math per school year. In reading, they got about 46 extra days of schooling a year.

Wouldn’t it be nice if that simple fact earned a salute from our mayor?