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Thursday, September 4, 2008
I’m trying to check this out
I got a phone message from Oakwood school board Jim Uphoff this week and he had a theory about why charter school test scores are gaining in Dayton while the school district’s scores are going down. He thinks it’s because charters are now attracting a significant number of suburban kids, even from districts like Oakwood and Kettering.
It is true that Dayton charter schools do draw kids from a wide variety of districts. But the numbers from the suburbs have always been pretty small with the vast majority of charter kids coming from Dayton Public Schools. I haven’t seen any signs that there has been a big shift towards the burbs, but I have asked the state department of education if they can give me any data to prove or disprove this theory.
Anyone have any insights as to whether there had been an influx of suburban kids to Dayton charters?
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