{"id":514,"date":"2012-10-08T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-10-08T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:46:53","slug":"parent-triggers-and-charters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Parent Triggers and Charters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am visiting in Pennsylvania, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfoundation.org\/research\/detail\/pa-must-pull-parent-trigger-to-save-education\">this commentary<\/a> on the need for a parent trigger law was in today&#8217;s paper. The Commonwealth Foundation supports charter schools, and the writer points to evidence that charters are outperforming public schools by demonstrating that more charters have made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfoundation.org\/research\/detail\/pennsylvanias-academic-performance-and-implications-for-charter-school-reform\">Adequate Yearly Progress<\/a>. It&#8217;s telling that the organization does not compare scores on either the PSSA (Pennsylvania&#8217;s state test) or NAEP (the national test of progress). \u00a0That data is only used to show that scores for public schools are declining. \u00a0I can&#8217;t help but wonder why? \u00a0Could it be that, when it comes to actual scores, the charters aren&#8217;t doing any better and maybe worse than the traditional schools?<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that&#8217;s what data is really showing about charters. What little reliable data can be found shows what much educational research does: results vary across schools, states, and students. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data-first.org\/questions\/how-do-charter-schools-compare-to-regular-public-schools-in-student-performance\/\">Some charters do better; some charters do worse<\/a>. There is certainly no research to support increasing the number of charters or that parent trigger laws lead to greater student achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am visiting in Pennsylvania, and this commentary on the need for a parent trigger law was in today&#8217;s paper. The Commonwealth Foundation supports charter schools, and the writer points to evidence that charters are outperforming public schools by demonstrating that more charters have made Adequate Yearly Progress. It&#8217;s telling that the organization does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parent Triggers and Charters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,49,177],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-research","category-school-reform","tag-charter-schools"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}