Number-crunching charter and public schools in New York City

School Finance 101 is a blog those writer does a much better job than I have ever done of looking into, uh, school finances and so on. In this post, which you should definitely read, the analysis is of charter and public schools in New York City from 2008-10, since it was written back in 2012. 

The bottom line is that the NYC charter schools are NOT achieving the miracles that the public is led to believe, even though the charters have smaller classes, fewer learning-disabled or poor students, and more money per pupil and longer school day and year.

Here is the link:

https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/what-do-the-available-data-tell-us-about-nyc-charter-school-teachers-their-jobs/