An article to be published in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management found that students who graduated from a charter high school are more likely to persist in college and experience higher earnings in the mid-20s than their district school counterparts.
In “Charter High Schools’ Effects on Long-Term Attainment and Earnings,” study authors Tim Sass, Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, and Kevin Booker write,
This paper is the first to estimate charter schools’ effects on earnings in adulthood, alongside effects on educational attainment. Using data from Florida, we first confirm previous research (Booker et al., 2011) that students attending charter high schools are more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in college. We then examine two longer-term outcomes not previously studied in research on charter schools—college persistence and earnings. We find that students attending charter high schools are more likely to persist in college, and that in their mid-20s they experience higher earnings.
Hopefully, Governor McCrory and the NC General Assembly will reinforce their commitment to charter schools in the short session and beyond.
