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Contrary to Fowler-Finn’s assertion, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88, whose research focuses on economics and education, says studies show that charter schools significantly outperform local district schools once they have been up and running for three to four years...
...adds that at charter schools established for more than six years, scores are more than 10 percent higher than those in the district...
Fowler-Finn’s other main critique of charter schools--—that they divert funding from the school district—is shared by Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who chairs the School Committee...
Sullivan says that if all the students that leave the school district to attend the charter school came from only one school, then the city would be able to save money by cutting back on teachers and utilities. But as the students will be drawn in “dribs and drabs” from 12 elementary and middle schools, he says it is unlikely that any one school will lose enough students to make cost-saving teacher cutbacks possible...
...Fowler-Finn] basically is saying that most of his costs are fixed. This is not true. Most of your costs are personnel costs,” Peterson says. “The percentage of children leaving the district to go to charter schools is a trivial number compared to the changes in demography every year...