Sentences with phrase «alternative charter high»

Gary Middle College is an alternative charter high school program, which offers a second chance for people of any age to come back to high school and finish their diploma — free of charge.

It is slated to open at 5600 East Capitol St., in the same building as the Maya Angelou alternative charter high school.

Not exact matches

We urge the DOE to not give up on l.S. I 09, to withdraw the current proposal and to find an alternative location for the new charter high school.

But the charter group pointed to the regulations only impacting «high - performing SUNY charters» an «alternative route» to certification.

Phoenix Charter Academy started an alternative high school targeting Lawrence dropouts.

The six sites include a suburban public school district and a small - town elementary school, a private religious school and a private secular school, an alternative public high school and a charter school.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

If private schools are reluctant to go along with this high - regulation approach, maybe it is best just to concentrate on charter schools which have no alternative but to accept whatever regulations come with state funding.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

Columns report descriptive statistics for the following samples: BPS students excluding exam, alternative, charter and pilot students from 2004 — 2009 (1); students enrolled in charter schools from 2004 — 2009 (2); students enrolled in pilot schools from 2004 — 2009 (3); charter applicant cohorts in randomized lotteries: middle school students in 2002 — 2007 and high school students in 2003 — 2006 (4); pilot applicant cohorts: elementary school students in 2002 — 2004, middle school students in 2002 — 2007, and high school students in 2003 — 2006 (5).

Last school year, 137 students assigned to Olympia's attendance zone instead attended Sunshine High, a charter alternative school run by a for - profit company.

For example, North Country Charter Academy, a competency - based alternative high school in northern New Hampshire, serves high school dropouts who arrive with a wide range of existing credits and levels of mastery.

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As a result, we can expect the same churning among alternative teacher preparation programs that we see with charter schools in high - poverty school districts.

Second, public schools are eligible to earn funding for a full day if they provide at least 43,200 minutes (4 hours per day) of instructional time to students enrolled in (1) a dropout recovery school; (2) an alternative education program; (3) a school program located at a day treatment facility, a residential treatment facility, psychiatric hospital, or medical hospital; (4) program offered at a correctional facility, or (5) a charter school providing adult high school diplomas or industry certification under Section 29.259.

Charter schools, he said, can offer a high - quality alternative at no extra cost.

Charters, when administered wisely, have shown they can provide high - quality educational alternatives to students who need them.

The trip enabled participants to see a range of secondary learning options for students, including a comprehensive high school with small learning communities, a small school within a larger educational complex, an alternative high school, and a public charter school.

Just 25 of California's 2,462 high schools account for more than a fifth of the state's dropouts, with the problem heavily concentrated in charter and alternative schools, according to a study being released today by UC Santa Barbara.

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard's office, which approves charter schools, partnered with the Association of High School Innovation to bring Diploma Plus, a network of alternative schools, and GED programs such as YouthBuild to the area, Sturgis said.

The rest were alternative schools, most of them charters and all specializing in education for high - risk students who couldn't make it in conventional schools.

The district includes 202 schools: 113 elementary, 23 middle, 27 high, 10 alternative, 25 charters, 25 child development centers, and 4 atypical (grade configurations) schools.

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

Charter schools that serve high - risk students can now apply for Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) by completing the two - part application process.

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That means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school than they would at any of the alternatives.

The discrepancy doesn't show up on campus or district level accountability reports, however, because most charter schools with low graduation rates are rated under alternative standards or have high numbers of students excluded from the graduation count.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

Moreover, while collectively charter, virtual and alternative schools account for 14 percent of high schools and 8 percent of students, 20 percent of high school students who do not graduate on time attend these schools.

According to the report by GradNation, 52 percent of the nation's low - graduation - rate high schools are charter, virtual and alternative high schools, all of which have grown in number since 2000.

virtual schools make up only about 10 percent of high schools, yet make up more than 50 percent of low - graduation - rate high schools nationwide, states should not be permitted to exclude alternative, charter, and virtual schools from the statewide accountability and improvement system required under ESSA.»

Accordingly, the report recommends that charter, virtual, and alternative schools, as well as traditional high schools, are monitored and provided with the necessary support to improve graduation rates.

New analysis conducted for this report shows that under the ESSA definition, 52 percent of the nation's low - graduation - rate high schools are charter, virtual and alternative high schools, all of which have grown in number since 2000.

The GradNation report states that «in light of the finding that alternative, charter, and virtual schools make up only about 10 percent of high schools, yet make up more than 50 percent of low - graduation - rate high schools nationwide, states should not be permitted to exclude alternative, charter, and virtual schools from the statewide accountability and improvement system required under ESSA.»

Alternative schools, which are established to meet the needs of «at risk» students, make up 6 percent of all high schools and share a similar graduation rate with charter schools — 52 percent.

When looking just at district - operated alternative schools, they make up 23 percent of low - graduation - rate high schools, and when separating virtual schools out from charter schools, the percentage of low - graduation - rate schools that are charter schools falls to 22 percent.

Since the Mississippi Charter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theiCharter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theicharter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for theiCharter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for their kids.

Moreover, while collectively charter, virtual and alternative schools account for 14 percent of high sch...

On top of the flexibility created by last year's alternative certification law, CSP's bill would give charters where at least half of students are impoverished the ability to hire teachers who are licensed in other states and those who have completed alternative licensure programs in other states and taught for at least two years in high - poverty schools.

require that all high schools, including alternative, charter, and virtual schools, are included in the accountability and improvement systems that states are developing under ESSA.

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.

And the Orange County School Board is asking the superintendent to look into allegations from ProPublica that public high schools are pressuring low - achieving students to move to alternative charter schools in order to improve their graduation rates.

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There are two cities in N.J. where charter school growth is indeed challenging district budgets: Newark and Camden, where the demand by parents for alternative public schools is extremely high and as many as a third of students attend charters.

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State legislation in recent years has pushed for more charter schools and alternatives to the traditional public school model, but state educators and others say they have not seen enough high - qualified groups applying for charter schools to fill the demand.

Specifically, a case study on Boston highlights how restrictive charter school caps can impede the growth of a high - quality charter sector; a case study on Denver illustrates the potential and challenges of district - charter collaboration; a case study on New Orleans describes how a city can embrace chartering and alternative governing structures to bring about improved opportunities for students; and a case study on Washington, D.C. illustrates how a well - developed city ecosystem can support a large charter market share.

PLEASE NOTE THIS UPDATE: In Table 1 of our report, the list of highest suspending charter schools should reflect the fact that Northstar High School no longer exists and Dallas Can Academy is best considered an alternative school.