Education Week reports in “Is There Empirical Evidence That Charter Schools 'Push Out' Low-Performing Students?” that a new study says:

“There is no statistical evidence that charter schools are ‘pushing out’ low-performing students at a rate higher than for regular public schools.”

The new report was written by Ron W. Zimmer, an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, and Cassandra M. Guarino, an Indiana University associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies. The report looked at six years of data from a large urban school system with a significant number of charter schools.