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"Choice Schools in Wisconsin are Performing Better"
There’s another report that shows the success of school choice in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Wednesday released its Apples to Apples report on charter and public school performance.
“Demographic factors have historically played a significant role in student performance. Any honest assessment of how schools and school sectors are performing must take these factors into account. However, much of the existing reporting on school performance ignores this reality,” the report states.
WILL said the idea is to compare counterpart schools, and “put schools on a level playing field to fairly assess education.”
"Once again, across a level playing field, choice schools in Wisconsin are performing better than their public-school counterparts," WILL research director Will Flanders said in a statement.
The report highlights:
Kids in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program outperform their public-school peers.
"Proficiency rates in private choice schools located in Milwaukee were about 14.30% higher in English/Language Arts (ELA) and 14.18% higher in math on average than proficiency rates in traditional public schools in Milwaukee after controlling for demographic characteristics,” the report states. “These gaps are the largest in the years this report has been conducted.”
It’s a similar story for kids in other district charter schools.
“District charters saw 9.27% and 11.61% higher proficiency in ELA and math respectively. Independent charters saw 3.92% and 5.63% higher proficiency,” WILL’s report noted.
And it was a similar story for kids across Wisconsin enrolled in private schools.
“Proficiency rates were about 8.57% higher in ELA and 5.42% higher in math for students participating in school choice statewide than traditional public school students,” according to the report.
The report also notes that Wisconsin continues to struggle with achievement gaps, and that choice and charter schools have “higher rates of academic growth than traditional public schools.”
You can read the report here.
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