{"id":92,"date":"2017-09-15T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcuswinters\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:22:04","slug":"are-low-performing-students-more-likely-to-exit-charter-schools-evidence-from-new-york-city-and-denver-colorado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcuswinters\/are-low-performing-students-more-likely-to-exit-charter-schools-evidence-from-new-york-city-and-denver-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Low-Performing Students More Likely to Exit Charter Schools? Evidence from New York City and Denver, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winters, M. A., G. Clayton, and D. Carpenter (2017). Are Low-Performing Students More Likely to Exit Charter Schools? Evidence from New York City and Denver, Colorado. Economics of Education Review<\/em>, vol. 56, pp: 110-117.\u00a0(Author Copy)<\/a>\u00a0(Publisher Copy<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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A common criticism of charter schools is that they systematically remove or \u201ccounsel out\u201d their lowest performing students. However, relatively little is currently known about whether low-performing students are in fact more likely to exit charter schools than surrounding traditional public schools. We use longitudinal student-level data from two large urban school systems that prior research has found to have effective charter school sectors\u2013New York City and Denver, Colorado\u2013to evaluate whether there is a differential relationship between low-performance on standardized test scores and the probability that students exit their schools by sector attended. We find no evidence of a differential relationship between prior performance and the likelihood of exiting a school by sector. Low-performing students in both cities are either equally likely or less likely to exit their schools than are student in traditional public schools.<\/span><\/p>\n