Sentences with phrase «as bad charter schools»

As bad charter schools have closed and good ones have expanded, evidence has accumulated that new schooling models can deliver better results for students in poverty, black students, Hispanic students, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities.

Not exact matches

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said last week that he plans to demand radical steps — such as firing most of a school's staff or converting it to a charter school — as the price of admission in directing $ 3.5 billion in new school improvement aid to the nation's 5,000 worst - performing schools.

They saw that there were success stories but that further work would need to be done to ensure that more of the good charters flourished and fewer of the bad charters remained (just as the case with traditional public schools).

In the high - regulation approach, these charter schools might well be identified as the «bad» schools for failing to improve test scores, and yet they are the ones that produce long - term success for their students.

A third faction, let's call them the Prudent Expansionists, have thought it just dandy that NCLB would invite bad schools to close and reopen as good ones, but doubt that the charter sector has the capacity to restructure vast swaths of failing public schools.

Even worse, NCLB, far from unleashing major new choice initiatives as was originally hoped, is instead threatening the future of many struggling urban charter schools.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

Ninety percent of authorizers are local school districts, many of which view charters as an administrative inconvenience, competitive nuisance, or worse.

In the eyes of many educators, policy makers, and philanthropists (and probably the broader public as well) chartering has come to be viewed as principally a mechanism for liberating poor kids from bad schools and relocating them into better schools.

Are today's virtual charter schools as bad as their reputation suggests?

«Voice» is defined here as «formal mechanisms in a school for teachers to participate in decisions about instruction, organizational issues, and workplace conditions,» which is not a bad way of stating a goal that all charters should pursue.

In fact, as noted above, the Center for Education Reform reports that only about 4 percent of charter schools have closed, not a bad failure rate for a new program.

As the article puts it: «But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.&raquAs the article puts it: «But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.&raquas well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.»

Like other skeptics, Carter seized on a 2010 report from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes that portrayed many charter schools as doing no better, and indeed sometimes worse, than traditional schools nationwide.

Even worse, raising the barrier to entry for operating a charter school (without actually improving quality, as we already discussed) disproportionately excludes minority community leaders from operating charter schools.

This forms the backdrop to the past half - century of what we now know as «standards - based reform,» which includes the crucial charter school concept of holding a school accountable for its results (measured, for better and worse, primarily by test scores).

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

And it seems, for whatever reason, very hard to get the public to understand that charter schools are not a single entity with one kind of culture or philosophy; they vary and, as with everything else in existence, produce both good and bad outcomes.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first placAs new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first placas the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

But some note that many charters perform the same as or worse than traditional public schools.

By focusing solely on charter schools as bad actors, the Center has essentially given traditional public schools, where 95 % of all students attend, a pass.

A 2009 Stanford University report, lauded as most authoritative research yet on the issue, concluded that 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

Ohio, where most charters are worse than the traditional schools, gained a reputation as the «Wild West» of charter schools because it exercised almost no oversight.

In Ohio, where about two - thirds of charter high schools fail to graduate at least half of their seniors, the state auditor says the financial records of 17 charter schools are so bad as to be «unauditable.»

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

But nationwide, charters perform about the same, and often worse as compared to district schools.

As I've said before, I am not suggesting that charter schools are bad or that a charter school parent doesn't have the right to find the right educational setting for their child.

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There was some bad news for charter schools in a government report last week that said children in those schools didn't do as well on national tests scores as kids in public schools.

DeVos was a prime architect of Detroit's charter school system, widely regarded as one of the worst in the country.

Ms. Darling - Hammond — who told the board that the school «takes all kids» and changes their «trajectory» — was angered by the state's categorization of the charter as a persistently worst - performing school.

After hours of anticipation yesterday as a bill lingered on a House Rules committee agenda that could allow for - profit charter school operators to takeover some of North Carolina's worst performing schools, Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) told the Charlotte Observer Thursday night that his proposal won't be taken up by fellow lawmakers this year.

Gateway is a popular and admired school and SFUSD, as anyone who has followed local education issues knows, has suffered a series of damaging and resource - straining beatings over the years for attempting to oversee charters, even badly troubled ones.

The fact that the school choice option was limited to just schools operated by the district (which may often be just as bad as the failure mills kids were leaving) instead of a wide array of charters and parochial schools outside of it has also blunted its usefulness.

It's not all bad news: The overall suspension rate in charter schools as well as district schools has fallen since the 2011 - 2012 school year.

And once again, we're back to stoking the «charter vs. public» debate as all one or the other; that is, whatever is good for charters must be bad for the school districts in which they are located.

Jane Arnold Lincove, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the study's lead author, says that the study suggests that the prospects for those veteran teachers fired after Katrina only got worse over the years, as more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

Research suggesting that vouchers or charter schools perform badly or well is seen as fueling either a Leviathan government that maintains iron - fisted control of schools or a Wild West scenario in which private school providers run amok and the only consumers who count are those with cash in their pockets.

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

According to a recent national study, two - thirds of charters are performing worse or the same as traditional neighborhood schools.

I think these donors are well intentioned, but sometimes the growth of the charter school sector, which they have funded, has led to traditional neighborhood schools actually becoming worse as students with more engaged parents flee them.

The worst enrollment decline among K - 12 systems was in the Detroit district, where students have been lured away by charter schools or by suburban districts that accept city residents as students.

As readers of Wait, What know, the urban charter schools are actually making the racial isolation problem worse because all the charter schools are more racially isolated than the public schools in those same communities.

Good schools are good schools and bad schools are bad schools regardless of their status as public neighborhood, public charter, magnet or otherwise.

That's not quite as bad as when the ComEd / Exelon CEOs built themselves a charter school which they named after themselves.

-- Research demonstrates that charter schools, as a whole, are no better than than community public schools and in many cases are worse.