Do charter schools skim students or drain resources?

Author/s: 

Thomas Dee

,

Helen Fu

Year of Publication: 
2004
Publication: 
Economics of Education Review
Volume/Issue: 
23(3)
Pages: 
259-271

Two critical concerns with the rapid and ongoing expansion of charter schools are that they will segregate students and reduce the per-pupil resources available to conventional public schools. The contradictory prior evidence on such questions is based on potentially misleading cross-sectional comparisons. This study provides new evidence on these issues by conducting panel-based evaluations using school-level data from Arizona and neighboring states. These results suggest that the introduction of charter schools in Arizona has increased pupil–teacher ratios in traditional public schools by 6 percent and reduced the proportion of white non-Hispanic students by 2 percent.

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APA Citation

Dee, T., & Fu, H. (2004). Do charter schools skim students or drain resources?. Economics of Education Review, 23(3), 259-271.