Sentences with phrase «most charter students»

Most charter students in fact come from traditional public schools.

It speaks volumes about the impact our schools are having on the lives of their students when you consider that most charter students come to the charter sector performing below grade level in several key measures,» remarked Broy.

Experts said comparing charters to the state's urban school districts is the best barometer of how well they're doing because those are the districts most charter students are drawn from.

We thought it impractical that students would travel great distances to span these large CBSAs, so we looked for some evidence on the distance most charter students travel.

Not exact matches

KIPP, one of the country's largest and most successful charter school chains, dismissed its co-founder, Michael Feinberg, after an investigation found credible a claim that he had sexually abused a student some two decades ago.

In Hempstead, while most of the students at The Academy Charter School are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems as well.

But New York's most controversial Charter School Executive Eva Moskowitz has reached a new low: tomorrow, she is planning to close all 22 of her schools and bus hundreds of students up to Albany to use as props.

Mr. de Blasio is critical of charter schools, saying that they do not serve enough of the most difficult students and that they increase the burden on regular public schools.

As with most charter schools, a lottery system was used to pick the students.

The statement about charters is pure deception - charters in NY succeed by draining the most motivated students, those who they market to.

We are not afraid of competition, it's charter schools that are afraid to take on the most challenging students, the tough cases that slow down learning for whole classes.

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, also said Success» likely expansion could create more of a wedge between Success and the city's other charters, since the network will serve by far the most students and require the most public dollars, a sentiment echoed by some independent charter leaders.

And one of de Blasio's most prominent foes, Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, has recently come under fire for a New York Times article demonstrating that students with disciplinary issues have been effectively forced out of some of the network's charter schools.

Most of the students in charter schools whose teachers are unionized attend one of the five charter schools that were formerly traditional public schools but converted to charter status.

The next three most - common constructive responses, found in seven locations, are partnerships with successful nonprofit CMOs or for - profit charter school operators, education management organizations (EMOs), to operate schools; the replication of successful charter school practices; and an increase in active efforts to market district offerings to students and families (see Table 1).

While a couple of charter schools — Harriet Tubman and Sisulu - Walker — are named after a black person, most of the charter schools, not a few, disproportionately draw black students.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

Because the oversubscribed charter schools in our sample admit students via random lotteries, comparing the outcomes of lottery winners (most of whom enrolled in a charter school) and lottery losers (most of whom did not) is akin to a randomized - control trial of the kind often used in medical research.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

At Charles R. Drew Charter School, the Literacy Center and Math Lab provide fun, engaging, and enriching interventions to help support students most in need.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

As Neerav Kingsland of the Arnold Foundation tweeted yesterday: «why is it the over-regulated charter sector that has had the most breakthroughs with low income students?»

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

Most notably, parents of charter - school students are more likely to be of minority background than are parents of either district - or private - school students (see Figure 1).

But in a different policy context it asserted that the state's charter schools had to follow the unusually comprehensive state curriculum frameworks (thus, in our view at least, guaranteeing a curriculum that will be geared toward superficial mastery by most students).

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

This paradox is most vivid when comparing students who attend «no excuses» charter schools and those who attend open - enrollment district schools.

Part of this difference reflects the areas of the city in which charter schools are located and the racial and ethnic makeup of the surrounding neighborhoods, which supply most of the students.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

They have been embraced by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and they have gained strong support in African American and Hispanic communities, where students are benefiting the most from charters.

As in most states, students in North Carolina can leave a traditional public school and enroll in a charter, at will and for no monetary cost.

Most research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend tMost research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend tmost intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend them.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

According to the most recent data, 75 of the state's 82 charter schools had lists totaling more than 37,000 individual students — more than actually attend the schools today.

We address this question here by examining the link between the establishment of charter schools in North Carolina and average student proficiency rates at the traditional public schools most affected by the new source of competition.

When a district loses students to a charter, most (sometimes all) of the per - pupil funding travels with those students.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

Charter schools, the most popular of them, now enroll but 3 percent of all public school students.

Dubbed «charter school deserts,» these areas are predominantly located in urban and rural settings and represent populations of students in most need of alternative school options.

Kids in urban charters learn more in math and reading, and the benefits are being realized most by disadvantaged students.

It's distressing that the Civil Rights Project is so wedded to formulas and methods that predate charter schools by decades and that they are expending such effort to discredit a movement that is bringing new hope to students who need it most.

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.