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Item Differences in Reading Performance Between Elementary Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools: A Texas Statewide, Multiyear Investigation(2017-09-22) Escalante, Martha L.; Moore, George W.; Slate, John R.The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which differences were present in the reading achievement of Grade 3 students between charter elementary schools and traditional elementary schools. In the first journal article, the extent to which the reading achievement of Grade 3 students differed between charter elementary schools and traditional elementary schools was addressed. In the second study, the degree to which differences existed between charter elementary schools and traditional elementary schools in the reading achievement of their Grade 3 students who were in poverty was determined. Finally, in the third article, the extent to which differences were present between charter elementary schools and traditional elementary schools in the reading achievement of their Grade 3 Black students was ascertained.Item Organizational, financial and demographic characteristics of charter schools in Texas and their relationship to school performance(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25) D'Lorm, RaulThe deepening dissatisfaction with traditional public schools has inspired changes in the educational system. In less than a decade charter schools have gone from nonexistent to widespread. Charter schools are different from other reforms because charter schools tend to vary in terms of their performance and population served. Some charter schools are obviously more effective than others in terms of their performance on reading, writing and mathematics state-mandated tests. Therefore, the purpose of this study of the correlates of charter school effectiveness is to measure the strength and direction of their relationships between charter schools performance and their organizational, financial and organizational characteristics. My research concludes that among the demographic, financial and organizational variables selected the attendance rate; the central administration expenses and the total number of teachers respectively have the strongest correlation and are the best predictors when it comes to school performance.Item The impact of charter schools in Texas(2009-06-02) Booker, Toby KevinThis dissertation examines the effects of charter schools in Texas, using data from the Texas Education Agency for 190 charter schools and over 60,000 charter students. In Chapter II we examine charter effect test score gains for charter students. After controlling for individual student characteristics, we find that students in their first year in a charter school have large negative test score gains compared to when they were in traditional public school, and that charter schools that have been in operation for more than one year have higher average test score gains than new charter schools. Charter schools appear to have the most positive effects on African-American students. We find that the overall effect of being in a charter school for multiple years is that students have slightly lower average test score growth than when they were in a traditional public school. In Chapter III we examine the effect of charters on test score gains for students attending nearby traditional public schools. After controlling for campus and student characteristics, we find traditional public school districts and campuses that face greater competition from charter schools have higher average test score gains than other traditional public schools. This positive effect of charter competition is strongest for African-American and Hispanic students, and is focused entirely on students attending traditional public campuses in the bottom 50% of the initial campus average achievement distribution. In Chapter IV we examine the charter effect on the distribution of students by ability and race/ethnicity, as well as examining what factors are associated with a student choosing to move to a charter school. We find that students who move to charter schools tend to move to schools with a higher percentage of students of their same race/ethnicity, and that this gap is largest for African-American students. We also find that average math and reading test scores are lower than the statewide average at the traditional public schools that charter students leave, and that charter schools are attracting, on average, the lower-performing students from these lowperforming schools.