A study from a pro-charter school group shows that open enrollment in public schools helped students – in one population, their grades dramatically improved. The Fordham Institute tracked 70,000 students who transferred from their home public schools to schools that admitted them through open enrollment. Chad Aldis with Fordham said on average, students move up two to four percentiles compared to the kids who remain in their home districts. “For African American students, we actually found the difference was 10 percentile. So that’d be the equivalent of the 50th percentile moving to the 60th percentile,” Aldis said.More than 480 Ohio public school districts allow open enrollment, but Aldis said many of the top ones don’t. And the practice has cost some districts that have lost students more than a million dollars in state funding, and can result in some districts over-extending to take in more students. Copyright 2017 The Statehouse News Bureau. To see more, visit The Statehouse News Bureau.
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Pro-Charter School Group Study Shows Open Enrollment Helps Students
