At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether a great school is operated as a district or a charter public school. All that matters is whether the school succeeds in educating children: the student outcomes, or results. If Democracy Prep’s Harlem school operated in Rhode Island, this school, comprised almost entirely of low income children of color, would be the top-performing school in the state for math performance, ahead of Barrington and East Greenwich. Note that when kids at Democracy Prep Harlem are first assessed by New York state in 6th grade, they under-perform peers, but as they progress to 8th grade, they rise to the top, outperforming even those students in Westchester County (New York’s equivalent to Barrington). This is the very same school operator that some are trying to block from opening its doors to serve Rhode Island children this September:
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