Document Type
Report
Publication Date
11-2020
Keywords
Public charter schools, funding, funding gap, equitable funding
Abstract
Public charter schools increasingly are part of both the national conversation about education policy and the local urban scene in America. Previous studies of public charter schools have examined their achievement effects focused on both the state and metropolitan levels, and funding disparities focused on the state levels. This report is the latest update to a series of studies of funding inequities concentrating on revenue disparities between charters and traditional public schools where charters are most common: metropolitan areas across the country. The 18 urban areas that primarily inform our study include Atlanta, Boston, Camden, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, Phoenix, San Antonio, Tulsa, and Washington, D.C. Because these locations include fourteen for which we have at least some prior data, we are able to examine funding inequities over time.
Citation
DeAngelis, C. A., Wolf, P., Maloney, L., & May, J. F. (2020). Charter School Funding: Inequity Surges in the Cities. School Choice Demonstration Project. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/scdp/81