Students who attended charter high schools in Chicago are more likely to transfer to another school than their counterparts at district-operated schools — with kids in a low-performing or new charter high school most likely to move.
That’s according to new research published Tuesday by the University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research, its first in-depth look — beyond test scores — at the city’s publicly funded, privately managed schools. Aiming to address questions raised in debates about the independently schools that, 20 years after they opened in Chicago, now account for a fifth of its public schools, “Chicago’s Charter High Schools” also revealed wider variations of quality in charters than in the district-run schools. It didn’t examine individual schools...