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Good Morning Everyone,

One of the major reasons that I stand on this side of the debate is simply because "free college" is never free. What I mean is, the cost is simply shifted from the student to taxpayers. This will translate to an entitlement of over half a trillion dollars! If the generosity of taxpayers does not keep up with the cost of tuition increases, then universities will be forced to either have to ration access or sacrifice quality (Eden, 2016). Either one of those options just would not be acceptable. The best example I can present to support the fact that "free college" is not the answer is to look at England's results when offering free tuition. First of all, England had to ration available spaces for students and when they went away from this model between 2006-2012--tuition increased by 87% yet college enrollment grew by 20% and applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds grew by 53%. What's more, as it stands now in America half of the students in the bottom income quintile pay no net tuition to attend public universities (Eden, 2016).

aswatkins(4) Clarified
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Perhaps the NAACP has brought so many lawsuits because of their opinion that charter schools are segregating based on race??? Just a thought..

aswatkins(4) Clarified
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Hi Briauna,

Were positive results shown in charter schools that were "self-selected"? The reason I ask is because in a system like Chicago's students are enrolled if the space allows whereas other charters can pick and choose who they'd like to attend.

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I tend to lean toward this side of the argument primarily because charter schools tend to serve a single racial or ethnic group and the achievement data does not support the fact that charters out-perform public schools in reading and mathematics. According to a 2016 study of those students that attended charter schools in Chicago from 2012-2014 it was determined that charter school students underperformed their traditional counterparts in most measureable ways. Reading and math pass rates, growth rates, graduation rates, and ACT scores were lower for charter school students. Additionally, the gap between charter and traditionals widened in the second year for most of the measures. Now, this is one study so it’s important to keep that in mind, but for a system as large as Chicago’s, it does carry some weight. In reality, the findings from an extensive and growing research literature show decidedly mixed results on the issue of student achievement. This is true for individual city or state studies including those on Chicago charters as well as multi-state studies. One recent review of the literature concluded that “{t}aken in the aggregate, the empirical evidence to date leads one to conclude that we do not have definitive knowledge about the impacts of public charter schools on students and existing schools.” (Silvernail & Johnson, 2014). The reason largely is due to selection bias. Typically, parents who choose a charter and enroll their child are signing on for or promising participation in their child’s education. With this as the case we should expect student achievement to be higher in charter schools. However, in the case of Chicago’s charter system where students are accepted as long as space is available and not self- selected, the outcome has been lower student achievement.

Orfield, M., & Luce, T. (2016). An analysis of student performance in Chicago’s charter schools. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24(111). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2203

Silvernail, D., & Johnson, A. (2014). The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools: What Does the Empirical Evidence Tell Us? Maine Education Policy Research Institute, University of Southern Maine. Retrieved from https://usm.maine.edu/sites/default/files/cepare/PublicCharterSchoolsWeb.pdf.

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