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It's interesting that the charter schools are doing well in OK. In my area (metro Detroit), the charter schools have the lowest standardized test scores, especially the charter schools that specialize in automotive, health care, etc. Also, the charter school near me which touted open classrooms, laptops for every child, etc, are among the lowest scorers in the state! It turns out, most of the kids there have been expelled from other public schools and it's their last resort.
Detroit Public Schools have a handful of really amazing schools that have special programs like foreign language immersion, arts across the curriculum, etc. However, there are huge waiting lists, lotteries and parents have to transport the kids themselves. Those schools do VERY well on the standardized tests and other NCLB criteria. The thing is, to get into those schools, they have to have parents who care enough about their children's education to seek out better alternatives and make sacrifices (like transporting them 10-20 miles to school each day) or they wouldn't be there. It's very difficult to factor out the other variables.
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