Sentences with phrase «charter school grad»

We just wrapped up our 20 Graduates in 20 Days series with Raven Joseph, a Highville Charter School grad who puts others first.

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The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

When a TPS is failing, the union whine usually goes like this, «Our high school grads are reading on a third grade level because schools are underfunded, or because the students come from poor families, or English isn't their first language, or...» (Never explained is how charters usually get better results than TPS and do it with considerably less money.)

New Grad Nation report looks at the impact of charter and alternative schools on high school graduation rates.

DiverseEducation.com: Charter High School Grads Persist in College, Earn Higher Salaries http://bit.ly/1S1FDAi

On the last point, the 2016 Building a Grad Nation report notes that alternative, charter, and virtual schools comprise only 10 percent of high schools nationwide, but they make up more than 50 percent of high schools with graduation rates at or below 67 percent.

Other schools with high percentages of college - ready Latino grads are six charters: Summit Preparatory in Redwood City at 90 percent; KIPP San Jose Collegiate at 83 percent, Aspire East Palo Alto Phoenix at 62 percent, Downtown College Preparatory at 49 percent, Leadership Public Schools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 pschools with high percentages of college - ready Latino grads are six charters: Summit Preparatory in Redwood City at 90 percent; KIPP San Jose Collegiate at 83 percent, Aspire East Palo Alto Phoenix at 62 percent, Downtown College Preparatory at 49 percent, Leadership Public Schools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 pSchools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 percent.

Achievement First, an outfit founded by Yale Law School grads, has been invited to open five charter schools in New York City by 2006.

One such group: Teach for America, a nonprofit that trains college grads to teach in public and charter schools.