Quote:Charter Schools have been massive failures. DeVos destroyed education in Michigan, and she's going to do it in the US too.  When they come to Virginia, my wife and I will be packing up so that our kids can get a good education.  Because that actually matters to me.  DeVos doesn't care about children with disabilities, or really any children at all.  That should be obvious from her confirmation hearing.  But Republicans will put her through because she donated money to them.  They don't care about the results.  All they care about is the free market, and how much money they can put back into their own pocket.

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Compared to the educational gains that charter students would have had in a traditional public school (TPS), the analysis shows that, on average, students in Michigan charter schools make larger learning gains in both reading and mathematics. Thirty-five percent of the charter schools have significantly more positive learning gains than their TPS counterparts in reading, while two percent of charter schools have significantly lower learning gains. In math, forty-two percent of the charter schools studied outperform their TPS peers and six percent perform worse. These findings position Michigan among the highest performing charter school states CREDO has studied to date.