How are charter schools in Ohio truly performing when compared to their district counterparts? The latest Fordham Foundation report, School Performance in Ohio's Inner Cities: Comparing Charter and District School Results in 2005 provides a rare apples-to-apples comparison of charter school and district school achievement in four of Ohio's cities: Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dayton. The results reveal that the performance of charter pupils isn't as dismal as Ohio's charter opponents want you to believe. However, the findings also illuminate the larger problem: ALL public schools in the Buckeye State still have a long way to go to reach academic success.

Policy Priority:
Standards & Accountability
Topics:
Accountability & Testing
Charter Schools
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Terry Ryan was Vice-President for Ohio Programs and Policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Research Institution.

He is the author, with Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael Lafferty of Ohio’s Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

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Kristi is the Ohio Policy and Information Manager for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. She comes to the Foundation from the Ohio Legislative Office of Education Oversight where she conducted research and evaluations of education programs funded by the state of Ohio.  Preceding that, she served as a legislative intern for the Ohio General Assembly and graduated from the Ohio State University with a MA in Educational…

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