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The Qualifications and Classroom Performance of Teachers Moving to Charter Schools

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  • Celeste K. Carruthers

    (University of Tennessee)

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Do charter schools draw good teachers from traditional, mainstream public schools? Using a thirteen-year panel of North Carolina public schoolteachers, I find that less qualified and less effective teachers move to charter schools, particularly if they move to urban schools, low-performing schools, or schools with higher shares of nonwhite students. It is unclear whether these findings reflect lower demand for teachers’ credentials and value added or resource constraints unique to charter schools, but the inability to recruit teachers who are at least as effective as those in traditional public schools will likely hinder charter student achievement. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy

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  • Celeste K. Carruthers, 2012. "The Qualifications and Classroom Performance of Teachers Moving to Charter Schools," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 7(3), pages 233-268, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:edfpol:v:7:y:2012:i:3:p:233-268
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    1. Helen F. Ladd & Charles T. Clotfelter & John B. Holbein, 2017. "The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 12(4), pages 536-563, Fall.
    2. Figlio, D. & Karbownik, K. & Salvanes, K.G., 2016. "Education Research and Administrative Data," Handbook of the Economics of Education,, Elsevier.
    3. Sorensen, Lucy C. & Holt, Stephen B., 2021. "Sorting it Out: The Effects of Charter Expansion on Teacher and Student Composition at Traditional Public Schools," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    4. Joshua M. Cowen & Marcus A. Winters, 2013. "Do Charters Retain Teachers Differently? Evidence from Elementary Schools in Florida," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 8(1), pages 14-42, January.
    5. Chen, Feng & Harris, Douglas N. & Penn, Mary, 2024. "The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    6. Bruhn, Jesse & Imberman, Scott & Winters, Marcus, 2022. "Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
    7. Sarah A. Cordes, 2018. "In Pursuit of the Common Good: The Spillover Effects of Charter Schools on Public School Students in New York City," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 13(4), pages 484-512, Fall.
    8. Dennis Epple & Richard Romano & Ron Zimmer, 2015. "Charter Schools: A Survey of Research on Their Characteristics and Effectiveness," NBER Working Papers 21256, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    Keywords

    charter schools; teachers; teacher performance;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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