This morning, the Center for Education Reform released a new charter schools report.  You can find it here along with some supporting material, including information on state funding showing that charters receive less per student, typically much less, than traditional public schools in every state.  (A superb Fordham study found the same thing back in 2005.)  The CER report also has new state-level information on school closures.

Overall, it’s an accessible document—short introduction and then one-page summaries on each state (student performance, number of schools, authorizers, funding, etc.).  They’ve gathered some interesting, useful information that makes this a good document to have by your desk, especially if you follow charters closely.  To be clear, it’s not a university-style scholarly study with regression models and p-values.  But it is classic CER: one part new data and one part strong advocacy.

Related posts:

1. Charter Funding Still Unfair
2. Did You Know? Findings from Fordham’s latest charter school accountability report