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Case III:
Charter Schools in Washington, D.C.
 
(3 February)
 Yale UniversityPolitical Science DepartmentPLSC240Spring 2009 John Bryan Starr 
 
Case III: Charter schools in Washington, D.C.
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Table of ContentsThe case 
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Document #1:
Education Commission of the States, “Education Issues:Charter Schools”(http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/search/default.asp
 
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Exhibit #1: 
Public Opinion Polling Data on Charter Schools
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Document #2:
Karla Scoon Reid, “Minority Parents Quietly EmbraceSchool Choice,”
Education Week,
December 5, 200111
Exhibit #2:
Charter school enrollment of selected populations
 
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Document #3:
Brian C. Hassel,
The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the Promise 
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999).20
Exhibit #3:“Strong” and “Weak” Charter Laws
 
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Document #4:
Bruno V. Manno, “Yellow Flag,”
Education Next 
(Winter 2003)37
Document #5: 
Frederick M. Hess, “The Political Challenge of Charter School Regulation,”
Phi Delta Kappan
, Vol. 85, No. 6, March 2004, pp.508-512.
 
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Exhibit #4:
Charter School Enrollment and Closures, by State
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Document #6:
Caroline Hendrie, “Charter Authorizers Eye Rules onClosings,”
Education Week,
February 2, 200553
Document #7:
Ron Zimmer and Richard Buddin,
Getting Inside the Black Box: Examining How the Operation of Charter Schools Affect Performance 
(Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, October 2005)57
Document #8:
 
Darcia Harris Bowman, “Charter school openingslowest in six years,”
Education Week
, February 18, 2004.
 
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Document #9: 
Diana Jean Schemo, “Charter schools trail in results, U.S.data reveals,”
New York Times,
August 17, 2004.83
Document #10:
 
“Charter vs. non-charter performance,”
Education Week
,September 1, 2004.
 
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Document #11:
 Diana Jean Schemo, “Education Secretary defends charter schools,”
New York Times
, August 18, 2004.87
 
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Document #12:
Diana Jean Schemo, “A second report shows charter schoolstudents not performing as well as other students,”
New York Times
,December 16, 2004.88
Document #13:
Martin Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence Mishel, andRichard Rothstein,
The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence onEnrollment and Achievement 
(Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute,2005)91
Document #14:
 Erik W. Robelen, “NAEP Gap Continuing for Charters:Sector’s Scores Lag in Three Out of Four Main Categories,”
Education Week
,May 21, 2008.
 
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Background informationon Washington, D.C. and its publicschools
 
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Exhibit #5:
School system statistics
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Exhibit #6:
Washington, D.C. School Governance
 
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Exhibit #7:
Student performance
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Exhibit #8: 
Timeline of events in Washington, D.C.
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Document #15:
Robert Allen Blair, “‘To Fix a Broken City:’ Home Ruleand the Origins of School Choice in Washington, D.C.,” Unpublishedsenior thesis, Education Department, Brown University, April 2006.Chapter 1: “The Charter Schools Movement in D.C. 1995-96.”109
Document #16:
Melissa Schoeplein, “Washington D.C.: The Charter School Revolution In the Wake of a Congressional Takeover,” Unpublishedpaper for ED164, December, 2001125
Document #17: 
DC Appleseed Center,
Charter schools in the District of Columbia: Improving systems for accountability, autonomy, and competition
(Washington, DC: DC Appleseed Center, 2001)134
Document #18:
Mark Schneider (SUNY Stony Brook) and Jack Buckley(Boston College), “Making the Grade: Comparing DC Charter Schools toOther DC Public Schools,”
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Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
25:2(Summer 2003)142
Epilogue 
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The work reported in this article was begun with support from the Smith Richardson Foundation and hascontinuing support from the National Science Foundation. Thanks to Dann Millimet for suggestionsregarding the propensity score model.
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