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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Fall 2004
Conference examines charter schools
Papers available online
The Performance of Charter Schools in Wisconsin compares charter schools to traditional schools on several categories.
Going Charter? A Study of School District Competition in Wisconsin addresses questions about entrepreneurial initiatives, structural expectations and spatial competition.
The Political Economy of School Choice focuses on how a set of Wisconsin decisions have pushed charter schools beyond inner city and urban areas to include mid-sized cities and smaller towns.
Charter school performance, competition with traditional schools and Wisconsin educational laws were examined in August 2004 at a conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Led by La Follette School Professor John Witte, the conference convened more than 80 educators, administrators, regulators and academics to review the findings of his three-year study of Wisconsin charter schools. The U.S. Department of Education funded the research.
Witte and co-researchers, including Professor David Weimer, prepared papers that looked at test scores, the emergence of non-metropolitan charter schools areas and case studies of specialty schools.
Index to La Follette Notes fall 2004