Nina Rees wasn’t the first person to lead the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. But her tenure witnessed the sector’s largest growth as well as some of the harshest attacks from critics who see charters as a threat to traditional public schools. Her announcement last month to leave the position she’s held since 2012 […]
It's misleading to suggest that a recent head-to-head comparison of standardized test results of public schools and their charter "twins" revealed a meaningful performance advantage by charter school students.
Research, released in June, concluded that charter schools outperform district schools on both reading and math exams. The results have drawn significant attention.