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Charter students score no better than MPS, study finds

Test scores of students at independent charter schools in Milwaukee were no better in reading and math than those of Milwaukee Public School students, a study released Thursday says.

The report, released by the School Choice Demonstration Project and conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arkansas, compared the reading and math scores of 2,295 students attending 10 of the 14 independent charter schools in grades three through eight with a carefully matched sample of 2,295 students from MPS for the 2006-?07 school year.