Ohio’s Online Charter Schools Struggle with Performance

Government Technology: Overall academic performance at Ohio charter schools is a mixed bag, a new analysis released Tuesday found, but one fact is clear: Students at online charters are performing significantly worse than those at both traditional public schools and brick-and-mortar charters.

Online charter school students in Ohio get 71 fewer days of learning growth compared to students at other charters for reading, and 130 days less growth in math, according to a new study of charter school performance by CREDO, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes.

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