Not exact matches
More than half of all charter
schools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent S
schools located within
public school buildings are overcrowded compared to
only 16 % of district
schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent S
schools they share space with, according to the analysis of
data conducted by the pro-charter
school group Families for Excellent
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Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at
data from the 1999 — 2000
Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.
Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when
school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,»
only 6 percent of traditional
public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private
schools (22 percent) were much higher.
schools (22 percent) were much higher.»
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.
While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical
data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and
only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as
public school teachers in a typical year.
Though the
only data on large - scale voucher programs she finds convincing come from her own study of the New Zealand
public - choice program and Martin Carnoy's work in Chile, Ladd confidently asserts that vouchers will not help those
public schools that are having the hardest time of it.
Even though charter
schools make up
only 4 percent of the total number of
schools with two years of API
data, these four charter
schools constituted 20 percent of the most improved California
public schools.
(The
Public Press examined
data from elementary
schools only based on the tax records of legally recognized PTAs.)
The
public school information is available from the Common Core of
Data only through 2011 - 12.
But
only around 45 percent of all
public elementary
schools actually offer before - and after -
school care, according to CAP's analysis of federal
data.
Boycotting the tests and depriving the state of
data is seen as the
only way to effect change in our
schools, and to curb the further privatization of
public education (see what's happening right now in the United Kingdom).
Charter critics often point to
data showing that
only 17 percent of charters outperform nearby traditional
public schools, but proponents say closures are evidence that charter -
school laws are working.
The
data for D.C. includes policies from both the Office of State Superintendent for Education (OSSE) and the D.C.
Public Schools (DCPS) Central Office, since D.C.
only has one district and DCPS policies largely affect
school and teacher performance.
As part of its work, ETW not
only analyzes
data to expose achievement gaps and understand underlying causes, but also works directly with
schools and districts to understand and evaluate the impact and effectiveness of
public school reform strategies and with community - based organizations to press for critical reforms.
To learn more about the Malloy administration's ongoing effort to withhold
public information read the CT Newsjunkie article, «Education Dept. Releases SBAC Test
Data Only to Local
School Superintendents.»
In 2009, the NAEP reports began to exclude charter
schools, leaving the most recent data the only results that isolate performance within D.C. Public S
schools, leaving the most recent
data the
only results that isolate performance within D.C.
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«But the
data shows in Michigan right now,
only 17 percent of our charter
schools perform better than
public schools.
As Matt Yglesias very fairly pointed out, the author, Natalie Hopkinson, failed to cite student achievement
data to back her claim that residential segregation and the expansion of the charter
school sector have left many DC families with
only «mediocre»
public school options.
This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's
school reform package contained in what is now
Public Law 116, which will
only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score
data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.
Many existing state
data systems
only include information on
public colleges, and very few include private, for - profit
schools.
According to 2011 - 2012
school year
data, while some charter networks or independent charter
schools offer significantly longer
school days, the average charter
school day is
only 18 minutes longer than the average
public school day.
For New York City, we were
only able to find
data on the level of the NYC
Public School District, which is an extremely broad area, instead of the immediate surroundings of each s
School District, which is an extremely broad area, instead of the immediate surroundings of each
schoolschool.
Such criticisms may have
only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law
School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counter
School, which cited North Carolina private
school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counter
school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable
data to back up claims that failing
public school students may be rescued by their private school counter
school students may be rescued by their private
school counter
school counterparts.
A new report on
school suspensions based on
data from Chicago
Public Schools shows that not only are students of color held out of class at a high rate even as overall suspensions are decreasing but also that as schools reduced suspensions, rates of unsafe behavior decreased and students reported feeling
Schools shows that not
only are students of color held out of class at a high rate even as overall suspensions are decreasing but also that as
schools reduced suspensions, rates of unsafe behavior decreased and students reported feeling
schools reduced suspensions, rates of unsafe behavior decreased and students reported feeling safer.