he city’s charter schools are providing a bigger boost to students’ reading and math performance than are traditional public schools, according to a new study.
The study — by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University — is the second in four months showing positive results for the city’s charter schools. It comes as proponents of the publicly funded, privately run schools are urgently pushing officials to lift the state’s charter school cap above 200.
New York’s application for as much as $700 million in federal aid under a competition known as Race to the Top — which looks favorably on states that support charter school growth — is due by Jan. 19.