The Legislature’s Joint House-Senate Committee on Education has been presented with the findings of research on the performance of charter schools in Kansas City and St. Louis. Test Scores from students attending 19 schools in Kansas City and 13 in St. Louis were compared to scores from students in regular schools in those cities and with scores from across the state.
“It [the requirement] asked for a comparison of how these schools are doing relative to the St. Louis and Kansas City public schools as well as to the state,” said Stacey Pries, Executive Director of the Committee. “That was specifically mentioned in the statutes. So, that’s just what we wanted to do is give the committee a picture of what the charter school performance looks like.” [click to continue…]
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