Do charters have higher dropout rates than public or private schools?
Charter schools, by and large, were founded to decrease the achievement gap, and that not only means in terms of the student’s ability to read, write, and compute, but also to stay in school and graduate from high school. The high school in Partnerships to Uplift Communities, for example, has had a 100 percent retention rate. We will have our first graduating class in June of 2007 and hundred percent of the students that enrolled with us at the beginning of ninth grade have stayed with us and are graduating from high school. A hundred percent of them are attending college in September of 2007. The purpose of a charter school is to keep the students. If you look at statistics nationally, charter schools have been able to retain kids and reduce the dropout rate at a much faster rate than traditional public schools.
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