Sentences with phrase «at traditional public»

In... 2010, 29 percent of the students at the traditional public school were reading and writing at grade level, and 34 percent were performing at grade level in math.

She had been at a traditional public school and needed to take outside courses to keep up with such basics as reading, her mother says.

When the American Federation of Teachers published a study that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

He said the scholarship would merely slow the growth in enrollment at traditional public schools.

Teachers at charter public schools earn as much or more than teachers at traditional public schools.

Thursday's press conference was coordinated with a national effort to draw attention to the needs at traditional public schools, and pressure legislators to increase funding for providing those services — an approach known as the community schools model.

«This finding about the importance of tutoring is in line with other recent evidence pointing to dramatic gains from intensive tutoring on its own, suggesting a good place to start for effective and practical reform at traditional public schools,» wrote the authors, Julia Chabrier of J - Pal North America, Sarah Cohodes of Teachers College Columbia University, and Philip Oreopoulos of the economics department at the University of Toronto.

That's in stark contrast to what's allowed at traditional public schools, where state law has strict prohibitions against someone who works in a district serving on its school board.

She started her career in education as a Teach For America Bay Area corps member, teaching at a traditional public elementary school in Richmond.

According to Mathis, achievement scores at traditional public schools aren't much different than the charter schools.

Students in the nation's virtual K - 12 charter schools — who take all of their classes via computer from home — learn significantly less on average than students at traditional public schools, a new study has found.

Students at Bridge run PSL public schools learned significantly more than students at traditional public schools, nearly twice as much in reading and more than twice as much in maths.

It would also allow charter schools to tap into local property taxes used to pay for capital projects at traditional public schools.

These schools tend to serve students with more intense special needs than you might find at a traditional public school.

15 % of Bridge PSL public schools students met reading comprehension benchmarks for first time, compared to 4 % of students at traditional public schools;

The learning gains made at Bridge PSL public schools in a single academic year are equivalent to almost 3 years of English instruction and nearly 2 years of math instruction at traditional public schools.

According to a study on teacher turnover conducted on charter and public school teachers in Los Angeles, it was determined that charter school teachers leave at a 33 % higher rate than teachers at a traditional public schools.

Perry says «his» students do better than students at traditional public schools.

But at the same time, a second study from the university released in tandem with the first shows that charter school students tend to be loyal to their schools: They were up to 80 percent less likely to leave their charter schools than their peers at traditional public schools.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

The charter students in Detroit gain over three months per year more than their counterparts at traditional public schools.»

Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study found.

Michele Mason, Executive Director of Newark Charter School Fund commented: «Families across Newark are demanding the highest quality school options for their children at both traditional public and public charter schools across the city and they deserve nothing less.

As charter schools have proliferated New Orleans and the country, many schools, including Success Prep, have largely relied on young, inexperienced teachers who tend to leave the classroom sooner than their peers at traditional public schools — an approach to hiring sometimes described as «churn and burn.»

But voters thought funds should be directed at traditional public schools rather than creating new charter campuses, with 59 percent favoring investments in traditional public schools over increasing the number of charter schools.

These FCAT grades are clear: Charter students are at a dramatically higher - risk of attending an F school than their peers are at traditional public schools.

Charter schools have a lower cost per pupil than traditional schools: Based on an analysis of relevant school costs and the number of enrolled high school students, the data shows the per pupil per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of Alliance charter schools.

This means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school than they would at a traditional public school.

School choice allows education funds to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

What if we allowed the public funds allocated for a child to follow him to whatever school his parents determined could best meet his needs, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school?

Similarly, most surveys show that charter teachers are more «empowered» than their peers at traditional public schools.

We estimated the per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of LAUSD Alliance charter schools.

The state's 107 charter schools, including QEA, receive public funds but are run by separate non-profit organizations and intended to develop innovate teaching systems that don't exist at traditional public school systems.

Instead, criticism being launched at the traditional public schools has split the community into two camps, those that support the charters and those that support the traditional school system.

Do charter schools increase student achievement at traditional public schools?

Education choice allows tax dollars to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

Education choice policies empower parents with the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

The following year, however, the city's Independent Budget Office released another report that overturned the previous report's findings, indicating that children with disabilities stayed at charter schools at a slightly higher rate than they did at traditional public schools.

Boston's Charter Schools Show Significant Gains — Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study found.

She said there were not enough charter schools in New York State to compare the performance of charter school students here to the performance of students at traditional public schools.

It was a measure put in place several years ago, amid concerns that too many new charter schools in any one district would lead to declining enrollment and reduced funding at traditional public schools.

Our work isn't done until every parent in Mississippi has a range of high - quality education options and the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

As educators try to improve performance of students at traditional public schools, charter schools are springing up as a popular, if patchy, fix.

In the first broad attempts to analyze the performance of Hawaii's charter schools, the state Department of Education and the Hawaii's Educational Policy Center have found that charter - school students are doing as well as or better than students at traditional public schools on the state's proficiency tests.

It's true that the growth of charters has reduced enrollment at some traditional public schools in places like Detroit and Washington, D.C..

CAVA students» performance on standardized tests was also significantly lower than at their traditional public school counter parts.

Legislation advancing education choice tears down barriers and empowers parents with the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

It's a figure that also stands out because D.C. charter school students consistently score higher on tests than those at traditional public schools in the capital.

is unique in that students take twice as many math and science credits as required at traditional public schools, and commit to both an extended school day and summer classes which facilitate a 32 - credit curriculum.