Reasons for Charter School Success - Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D. - Show-Me Institute

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You're forgetting one big factor in the success of charter schools. Parents must make the effort to actually enroll their children in charter schools. The parents who would actually go to the trouble are clearly more involved in their child's education (if they weren't, they wouldn't have even bothered trying to remove them from the failing public school). If students were chosen at random to enroll in the charter school, the results would be different.