For example, teacher salaries, even after incorporating cost - of - living adjustments, are 5 percent to 12 percent
higher at magnet schools than in charter schools, on average.
One theory for this better performance is that students, staff, and
parents at magnet schools have clearly defined expectations and a common mission.
Who else in the universe talks like this: «The Office of Policy and Management and we are agnostic at the moment on the right solution» for moving forward with enrollment
growth at magnet schools, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor told members of the legislature's Education and Appropriations committees Feb. 27.
Economically disadvantaged students at traditional schools made higher gains compared to last year than their
peers at magnet schools.
The Ann Arbor school board is considering a new rule that would require all students to take the state standardized test, or risk losing their
spots at magnet schools and programs.
This is especially true for
principals at magnet schools that must deal with complex bus schedules that need to get children home to multiple communities and principals who oversee schools with younger children since they have a particularly fundamental, even legal, obligation to ensure that no young child goes home to an empty house.
Legislators largely ignored an estimated $ 50 million the nonpartisan analysts say is needed to maintain current
services at magnet schools and the education commissioner say is needed to support previously scheduled enrollment increases.