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The findings of this study show that on average, charter students in Texas experience stronger annual growth in reading and similar growth in math compared to the educational gains of their matched peers who enroll in the traditional public schools the charter school students would otherwise have attended. The impact on reading gains is statistically significant. Thinking of a 180-day school year as "one year of learning", an average Texas charter student exhibits growth equivalent to completing 17 additional days of learning in reading each year.
