School Choice Demonstration Project Research on Charter Schools
Impact: Our studies, which we have regularly presented at APPAM conferences, have received a lot of media coverage and contributed to policy reforms that made public school funding more equitable in Tennessee, Florida, Colorado, and Indiana.
Researchers: Patrick Wolf, Heidi Erickson, Matthew Lee, Jonathan Mills, James Paul, Marilyn Rhames, Yujie Sude, Cassidy Syftestad
Summary:
We drew from school finance data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics augmented by our own original data collection to establish where public charter schools are funded inequitably relative to traditional public schools and how large the "funding gap" is in those locations.