Why Massachusetts Should Double the Number of Charter Schools

Beacon Hill Institute via Insider Online: his study demonstrates that charter schools outperform non-charter public schools on the 8th and 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams by statistically significant margins after controlling for socio-economic differences among the student populations. We offer several explanations to account for these findings, paramount among them being the freedom charter schools enjoy from bureaucratic restrictions. This freedom allows charter school teachers to innovate with methods denied to their non-charter counterparts.