. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

,000 students in 86 schools across 9 states. Unlike several of the other large for-profit companies that operate virtual charters … low-income, underrepresented minorities in urban areas, the benefits of attending an NHA charter network are concentrated … among non-poor students attending charter schools outside urban areas. Using data from a survey of school administrators in …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools …