Second Study Gives Thumbs Up to N.Y.C. Charters

Education Week is reporting (subscription) that a second study has just been released on the charter schools in New York City. Like an earlier study from Stanford researcher Caroline Hoxby, this new report also finds kids in NYC charters are outperforming kids in the regular school system.

What is different, this time, is the new report comes from the CREDO group, also from Stanford, which earlier issued a general report on 15 states and Washington, DC, that found charter kids only outperformed their peers once they had been in charters for three years.

Thus, the evidence continues to mount – Kentucky is making a mistake by not establishing high quality charter schools such as now are clearly to be found in New York City.