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Using data from the Los Angeles Unified School district, (LAUSD) I analyze student outcomes from Advanced Placement tests and Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments to determine if charter school students display higher levels of college readniess.  Using panel data from 2011-12 through 2014-15 for the Advanced Placement tests, I find a gain of between 10.8 and 21,0 percentage points for charter students on average over students attending traditional public schools.  For the Smnarter Balanced tests, I again find that charter students outperform traditional public students on average with gains in all categories for both the English and mathematics portions of the exam.

education, school choice, charter schools