The opponents of school choice and charter schools sometimes argue that private schools don’t deliver better education. Usually, though, they contend that if parents can send their children to a better school, the children left behind in the inferior school will suffer.
A new study suggests that the students “left behind” benefit from charter schools they don’t attend because the charter schools apply competitive pressure to the traditional public schools.
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