That, plus concerns critics have raised about the validity of the methodology and definitions used in the study, render moot the claims of besting traditional public schools. [...] Robert Enlow, president and CEO of the Indianapolis-based EdChoice, a nonprofit that tracks and advo- cates for school choice policies, has declared 2023 the “year of universal choice” because of the proliferation of new state laws establishing or expanding programs that allow the use of public funds for private and religious education. [...] The audit included a response from the Education Department that said it was already implementing some of the recommendations made to improve processes but also said it did not concur with a few of the find- ings. [...] As for the specific findings of the study, Matt Barnum of the education news publication Chalkbeat put it this way: “CREDO found that attending a charter school for one year would raise the average student’s math scores from the 50th percentile to the 50.4 percentile and reading scores to the 51st percentile. [...] Differenc- es of the magnitude described here could arise simply from the measurement error in the state achievement tests that make up the growth score, so considerable caution is needed in the use of these results.
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