Sentences with phrase «as traditional public schools»

By adjusting for schools that serve at - risk students, the study focuses on regular charter schools that are expected to meet the same standards as traditional public schools.

Most, but not all, charter schools are open - enrollment, meaning they accept all of the same students as a traditional public school.

As public schools, charter schools are subject to the same federal requirements as traditional public schools.

The public agrees that charter operators should play by the same rules as traditional public schools when it comes to transparency and accountability.

The bill would also allow the cyber programs to receive the same per - student public funding as traditional public schools.

For all their bureaucratic freedom, charter schools are required to administer the same standardized tests as traditional public schools.

Studies have shown that virtual schools don't deliver as good an education as traditional public schools.

This continues even as traditional public schools are stripped of funding, teachers, art and music programs, libraries, and more.

As public school students, children attending charters should be able to access similar funding and facilities as their traditional public school peers.

A visual inspection of school names suggests zero of the schools with missing data on this indicator are magnet schools, so they are all coded as traditional public schools.

The survey also breaks down the data across various groups, such as traditional public schools and charter schools and principal demographics.

These programs are popular with business groups but are generally not as successful as traditional public schools.

Some charter schools are effective and have long waiting lists, but substantive education research more generally shows charters are a mixed bag — as variable in quality as traditional public schools.

In addition, individual schools are evaluated and assigned a school grade using the same standards and criteria as traditional public schools.

For example, special needs students are not as likely to attend a charter school as a traditional public school.

The debate is framed as traditional public schools versus everything else.

In other words, the voucher only increases, as a matter of law, the same amount as traditional public school funding.

Teachers at charter schools must be certified under the same qualifications as traditional public school teachers.

In many states, charter schools are compelled to use the same measurements to evaluate their teachers, enroll students, and discipline students as traditional public schools use.

As public schools, charter schools are required to enroll and serve students with disabilities in the same manner as traditional public schools and in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws.

But a bigger share — 42 percent — made test score gains that were not as strong as traditional public schools.

They put them in the same league as traditional public schools.

Many charter schools already use school site - based budgeting, providing track records as the traditional public school system looks to this type of funding model.

Public charter schools must meet the same academic standards as traditional public schools, and their teachers must meet the same certification requirements as teachers in other public schools.

But charter schools - which are public schools, as they are free and open to all - work with the same base of students as traditional public schools.

Charter schools are not being held as accountable as their traditional public school counterparts.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.»

A Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that makes certain that charter schools are subject to the same public records and open meetings laws as traditional public schools.

Nor would the charter - managed schools be subject to the same level of oversight as traditional public schools — an accountability model that has proven highly problematic in North Carolina in recent years with the closure of several schools thanks to financial fraud and governance problems.

If there are more applications for admission to a particular school, a lottery is used to determine which students are enrolled and charter schools are subject to the same system of state accountability as traditional public schools.

ALEC's «Virtual Public Schools Act,» for example, even allows virtual schools to be paid the same amount per pupil as traditional public schools even though operations like K12 have no bricks and mortar school house or desks or air - conditioning or gyms, etc., to maintain.

They administer the FCAT but are not held to the same requirements from the state as traditional public schools.

When coupled with the fact that there is no transparency or accountability in terms of how charters spend taxpayer dollars are the very reasons why we need to put the brakes on charter expansion and require them to serve the same student populations and be just as accountable as traditional public schools.

Rhonda Dillingham, executive director of the N.C. Association of Public Charter Schools, one of the state's leading advocates for the growing charter industry, declined to address the specifics of the McIntosh case, but agreed that charters operate under the same requirements as traditional public schools in meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

Charter schools, funded with taxes, will not have the same accountability and transparency as traditional public schools.

Charter schools must be nonprofit educational organizations, can not charge tuition, and must administer the same state tests and are rated under the same system as traditional public schools.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

Charter schools are subject to the same restrictions on teaching religious doctrine as traditional public schools and may not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, or disability.

As a Minnesota public charter school, we follow the same state criteria for graduation as traditional public schools.

Require that public charter schools be free and open to all students just as traditional public schools are, and that students be selected by lottery to ensure fairness if more students apply than a school can accommodate;

Private Schools: operate privately, funded by private money through tuition and donations, not required to follow same accountability measures as traditional public schools and may discriminate based on race, ethnicity, academic performance and religion.

There are charter schools that are just as broken; that suspend students and contribute to the school - to - prison - pipeline just as much as traditional public schools do; that over-test students and over-work teachers.

«This study reveals in unmistakable terms that, in the aggregate, charter students are not faring as well as their traditional public school counterparts.»

When Pennsylvania recalculated charter schools» AYP using the same formula as traditional public schools, a much lower percentage of charter schools (both bricks - and - mortar charters and cyber charters) reached AYP than traditional public schools.

The charters will get the money for these programs because they receive the same per student allotment as all traditional public schools, but they will be under no obligation to provide the services.

In addition, using CCSA's own performance metric, the Similar Students Measure (SSM), charter public schools serving African American students were more than three times as likely as traditional public schools to consistently outperform their predicted performance in a single year and overtime.

As traditional public schools wither and close, more and more families are drawn to the unregulated private sector.