Alaska’s charter school program is one of the least-well-supported charter school programs in the United States. Education “experts” around the education establishment would point to that and predict that the Alaska charter school system would be struggling to equip the kids with even rudimentary education.
They would be wrong. With only local control, essentially from parents, Alaska’s charter schools are some of the best in the country.
Despite having one of the most poorly supported public charter school systems in the country, Alaska charter school parents have managed to create the highest performing charter system in the US.
That’s the conclusion of two PhD’s who produced a scientific study for Harvard University in November 2023. The researchers from the Harvard study had no motivation to make Alaska’s charter schools look better or worse than…
