Sentences with phrase «at charter schools did»

Yet the range at charter schools did not vary nearly as much.

Their primary argument is that students at charter schools do better on mastery tests.

Not exact matches

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First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

AG Andrew Cuomo, who said during his acceptance speech yesterday that it would be a «tragedy» if the Legislature didn't pass a bill to lift the charter school cap and improve the state's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funding, just released a (very) brief statement in response to the news that his wish had come true.

At a City Hall rally, de Blasio claimed he's done everything he can to accommodate charters and offered to «sit down anytime, anywhere» for «a constructive dialogue about how we can work with charter schools and with parents who are in charter schools.»

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

The city teachers union didn't seem too concerned at the prospect of charter - school candidates flooding the school boards.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

«The last thing we want to do is open up a charter school that can not succeed, that we had worries about at the beginning,» she said at a Crain's forum in Midtown.

Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

Board president Lamont Johnson said Antoine should have done a better job at forecasting the charter school enrollment figures.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

But he's found some roadblocks, and has had to go a route he didn't expect at the outset: charter school.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

Michelle Arellano, the chapter leader at Manhattan's PS 138, a District 75 school that is co-located with a Harlem Success Academy charter school, said it's clear to her that charter schools are not accepting the same high - needs students enrolled in her school and that her school does not have the resources it needs.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

«Expanded time certainly isn't the only thing these charter schools are doing, but I don't think any of them could conceive of going forward without more time,» says Chris Gabrieli, cofounder of Mass2020, the nonprofit overseeing the pilot program in Massachusetts, who spoke at the Ed School in December.

While they didn't get any of their top choices, there was a spot at a recently opened charter school that they were interested in.

The task force spent nearly five hours taking testimony from pre-selected presenters who don't work in charter schools every day like I do and, in most cases, don't work in or attend any school at all.

«I had expectations of what the parents were supposed to do,» says Melissa Bryant, a math teacher and dean of students at D.C. Scholars Stanton Elementary, a novel partnership between the Washington, D.C., public schools and Scholar Academies, a charter operator.

While employment contracts make it almost impossible to redesign a traditional school around the needs of students, we can do that redesign at our charter school.

In kindergarten, 5.6 percent of students who listed at least one charter school as one of their five preferences had an IEP, while 7.8 percent of students who did not list a preference for a charter school had an IEP.

However, if we do not control for school policies and look at the simple correlation between a charter school's years in operation and student achievement, we find that older schools have more positive achievement effects.

At Valor Collegiate Academies — two charter schools on one campus in Nashville that serve grades 5 through 8 — the core philosophy is that «really strong SEL work is very advantageous to kids also doing well academically in school,» says Todd Dickson, who founded the schools with his twin brother, Daren.

Can't be at Wednesday's panel discussion looking at Boston's charter, pilot, and traditional public schools, but don't want to wait for a news story the next day?

Despite the setback caused by changing schools, disadvantaged students at charter schools still did better in math within two years after switching to charter schools.

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

In sum, charter parents are more likely to identify serious problems with student behavior at their children's schools than are private - school parents, but less likely to do so than district - school parents.

Competition from charters and other schools of choice is one proven way to do that, so continuing to grow alternatives to traditional public schools should remain at the top of our priority list.

His comprehensive plan didn't mention charter schools as part of the solution, although it was written by a former charter school leader and the stage was filled with charter school students at the press unveiling.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

1) Entry Grade Level: Charters that enroll at the K - 1 level did dramatically better than those (like Democracy Prep) who enroll in the middle school grades.

«At the end of the day, parents don't care about charter, union, traditional, they just want a good school for their kids,» says Riley.

Yet at first glance it appears that PDK finds much more support for charter schools than the Ednext poll does.

In fact, one recent piece of research — a 2015 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University — suggests that students in online charter schools aren't doing as well as their peers.

Perhaps for this reason, many charter schools in North Carolina target at - risk students and presumably do not pose a competitive threat to traditional public schools.

charter schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (and please don't call it «Hugsy»).

A new Brookings study by Russ Whitehurst and Michelle Croft finds that students attending the charter school connected with the Harlem Children's Zone do not outperform students at other New York City charter schools, but Jay Mathews warns that it is too soon to draw conclusions about the impact of the HCZ's services.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

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.

At that time, today's familiar constellation of advocacy groups and charter school operators didn't yet exist.

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.