DPI also reported the percentage of tests passed by all<\/em> NC public school students combined to be 56.6%[ii]<\/a>.<\/p>\n Not reported by DPI or the mainstream media is the fact that, when results are categorized into either public charter students or public traditional students, the public charter students pass 66.6% of their tests while the public traditional students pass only 56.2% of their tests. Thus charter students pass 18.5% more tests than traditional students: 10.4\/56.2 = 18.9% more.<\/p>\n This outstanding achievement by charter students is even more newsworthy when the results are further categorized into the various demographic groups.<\/p>\n Not only did the combined charter groups outscore traditional groups by 66.6% to 56.2%, but Black public charter students outscored Black traditional students.\u00a0 Even though the percentage of Black students is in each group is nearly identical, 25% and 26%, the public charter Blacks outscored traditional Black students by 47% to 37% – a 27% greater passing rate for charter Blacks.<\/p>\n Similarly, DPI data reveal that low-income public charter students also outscored low-income traditional students 50% to 41%.<\/p>\n These important results are even more newsworthy when it is noted that they were achieved by spending 27% less tax money on public charter students than on public traditional students.<\/p>\n So back to the original question: if no one in the mainstream media carries the story, did it really happen?\u00a0 And what could be the benefit to the state\u2019s system of traditional schools?\u00a0 What could our legislators and bureaucrats learn and do that could lift all of the state\u2019s children to these real but, alas, unreported higher levels of success achieved by charter schools?<\/p>\n I guess we may never know.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [i]<\/a> http:\/\/www.ncpublicschools.org\/accountability\/reporting\/<\/a><\/p>\n![\"DPI](\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DPI-EOG-GLP-2015-charter-vs-district-table.jpg\")
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<\/a>In fact, DPI data show that in 12 of 13 demographic groups, public charter students outscored their traditional school classmates.\u00a0 The only two groups where charter students did not outscore traditional students were American Indians and Academically Gifted \u2013 groups where there were very few such students in charter schools.<\/p>\n![\"DPI](\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DPI-EOG-GLP-2015-charter-vs-district-bars.jpg\")
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