Subscribe:
RSS feed
Data and thoughts on public and private school funding in the U.S.
Browsing All Posts filed under »New Jersey Charter Schools«
When Dummy Variables aren’t Smart Enough: More Comments on the NJ CREDO Study
This is a brief follow up on the NJ CREDO study, which I wrote about last week when it was released. The major issues with that study were addressed in my previous post, but here, I raise an additional non-trivial issue that plagues much of our education policy research. The problems I raise today not […]
The Secrets to Charter School Success in Newark: Comments on the NJ CREDO Report
November 27, 2012
Today, with much fanfare, we finally got our New Jersey Charter School Report. The unsurprising findings of that report are that charter schools in Newark in particular seem to be providing students with greater average annual achievement gains than those of similar (matched) students attending district schools. Elsewhere around the state charter schools are pretty […]
Parsing Charter School Disability Enrollments in PA and NJ
August 23, 2012
Here are a few quick figures that parse the disability classifications of children with disabilities served by charter schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Two previous posts set the stage for this comparison. In one, I explained how charter schools in the city of Newark, NJ, by taking on fewer low income students, far fewer […]
New Jersey Charter Data Roundup: A look at the 2010-11 Report Cards
June 8, 2012
Comments Off
Here’s a quick run-down on the 2010-11 New Jersey School Report Card data on charter schools. No-one else is putting out decent summaries of this stuff, so I feel obligated to revisit these data periodically. They don’t change much over time. But those older blog posts get buried over time. So, here we go. Let’s […]
NJ Charter Data Round-up
January 15, 2012
Note: I will be making updates to this post in the coming days/weeks. As we once again begin discussing & debating the appropriate role for Charter schools in New Jersey’s education reform “mix,” here’s a round-up on the New Jersey charter school numbers, in terms of demographic comparisons to all other public and charter schools […]
Digging for Consistent, Comprehensive Financial Data on New Jersey Charter Schools
October 28, 2011
I’ve commented in the past about the difficulties of obtaining reconcilable data on finances of New Jersey Charter Schools. What do I mean by reconcilable? Well, when I’m looking at financial data on charter schools in particular, I like to be able to see some relationship between expenditure and revenue data reported on IRS 990 […]
Misinformed charter punditry doesn’t help anyone (especially charters!)
October 4, 2011
Download slides of figures below: TEAM Academy Slides Oct 5 2011 Link to NCES Common Core Build a Table: http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/ Link to Special Education Data (NJDOE): http://www.nj.gov/education/specialed/data/ADR/2010/classification/distclassification.xls Link to School Report Card Download (NJDOE): http://education.state.nj.us/rc/rc10/database/RC10%20database.xls Link to Enrollment Data 2010-11 (NJDOE): http://www.nj.gov/education/data/enr/enr11/enr.zip Misinformed charter punditry doesn’t help anyone. It doesn’t help the public to […]
Zip it! Charters and Economic Status by Zip Code in NY and NJ
July 6, 2011
There’s no mystery or proprietary secret among academics or statisticians and data geeks as to how to construct simple comparisons of school demographics using available data. It’s really not that hard. It doesn’t require bold assumptions, nor does it require complex statistical models. Sometimes, all that’s needed to shed light on a situation is a […]
Does New Jersey really need more small, segregated schools?
May 23, 2011
Political pundits and the media frequently point out two major concerns regarding the organization of public school districts in New Jersey. First, that New Jersey, being the most population dense state in the nation, simply has far too many small schools and school districts (largely an artifact of municipal reorganization and alignment that occurred in […]
A few updated NJ charter figures: Write your own story…
May 14, 2011
Performance Demographics Cohort Attrition Rates for Selected Newark Charters
December 3, 2012
6