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Charter schools hit highs, lows on PSSA.
Byline: Dena Pauling
Sep. 24--STATE COLLEGE -- As most schools in Centre County meet state targets for standardized tests, a look at local charter schools shows their results often fall into two extremes.
In certain grade levels and subject areas, charter schools have the worst Pennsylvania System of School Assessment scores in the county, sometimes by significant margins.
Only 47 percent of fifth-graders at Centre Learning Community Charter School, for example, tested proficient or advanced in math last school year. The second lowest score for that grade level was at Wingate Elementary School, where 61.5 percent tested proficient or advanced in math.
But Centre Learning Community bounced back with its sixth-grade math scores, which show that a little more than 85 percent of students tested proficient or advanced -- the best scores in the county.
Charter school teachers and administrators say standardized…
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