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"A historical political resource."
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NAACP Statement on Charter Schools
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| Contributor | Forwardista |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Dec 28, 2011 12:08pm |
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| Category | Press Release |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WHEREAS, charter schools are public schools which were originally designed to explore new approaches to educate students; and
WHEREAS, in some cases, charter schools have become a school model that is used to segregate students; and
WHEREAS, charter schools have too seldom informed the education community
regarding innovative instructional strategies that accelerate academic achievement in the general population of students; and
WHEREAS, the Center for Research in Educational Outcomes (CREDO) which
examined charter school data in fifteen (15) states and the District of Columbia
confirmed that only 17% of the charter school students in the study outperformed their peers, while 46% performed no better and 37% performed worse; and
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