id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000269265200004 Zimmer, R Is Charter School Competition in California Improving the Performance of Traditional Public Schools? 2009 .txt text/plain 146 7 39 A premise of charter school initiatives has been that these schools have direct benefits for the students attending them and indirect benefits for other students by creating competition for traditional public schools to improve their performance. This study uses a two-pronged approach to assess whether California charter schools are having indirect effects on students in traditional public schools. cache/WOS-000269265200004.txt txt/WOS-000269265200004.txt