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In this post, Burris looks at whether charter schools can properly be compared with district public schools — as they often are.

State Rep. Roy Takumi, D - 36th (Pearl City, Palisades), and Sen. Norman Sakamoto, D - 15th (Waimalu, Airport, Salt Lake), the leading Democrats on education, said they will look at whether charter schools are adequately funded.

Not exact matches

«I'm not buying de Blasio gave him an overarching focus, because clearly the governor used the mayor for a punching bag from the very beginning of the administration, whether it be on the millionaire's tax or charter schools,» said Doug Muzzio, professor of political science at Baruch College.

When we investigated whether each year of attendance at a charter school had a different effect, we found no evidence to support the idea of different effects in different years.

looks at the role charter schools are playing in Boston and at political debates over whether there should be more charter schools there.

Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.»

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

The only way to know with confidence whether charters cause better outcomes is to look at randomized control trials (RCTs) in which students are assigned by lottery to attending a charter school or a traditional public school.

In the end, our analysis of charter school effectiveness is based on the experiences of only those students for whom we observe annual gains (whether positive or negative) in test scores at least once in a charter school and at least once in a traditional public school.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

To see whether the presence of a charter school within a neighborhood is correlated with public opinion — either favorable or unfavorable — we surveyed a representative sample of residents living in zip codes in which at least one charter school is located.

While it is too soon to say whether they are effective over time or at scale, these diverse charter schools are revealing themselves to be popular, controversial, and — not surprisingly — complicated to operate.

We don't whether there were any, say, charter middle schools in Texas that reduced achievement but increased their students» odds at graduating from high school.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

An entire field of education research aims to assess whether students are better off at charter schools than in the public system.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

Eric Murphy, a seventh grade humanities teacher at Excel Public Charter School in Kent, takes his students through a lesson about Syrian refugees and the issues surrounding whether or not they should be able to emigrate to this country, in January.

(We counted all those offered admission at a charter school against the charter school ledger, whether they actually attended or subsequently dropped out.

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

When money follows students, whether at a charter school, a traditional neighborhood school, a private school, or even for homeschooling cooperatives or courses at a community college, all parties are more accountable.

So whether a particular student gets assigned a slot at the charter school is luck of the draw.

At least part of the disagreement revolves around whether charter schools deliver on their promise to improve student outcomes.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

So, our project looked at how well all of the schools in a city — whether they are district - or charter - governed — are serving their city's children and how a city's schools compare to those in other cities.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

People worry whether the Gates Foundation is going to just do away with districts at the expense of charters.

At a town hall in South Carolina this weekend, Hillary Clinton was asked whether she supports charter schools.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

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.

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.

At Locke, Green Dot took the risk of operating under the same conditions that hobble many public schools — accepting all the students within the attendance boundaries, whether or not they wanted a charter school, would follow its rules or even understood what the change was about.

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.

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.

D.C. Council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), chairman of the education committee, also questioned whether the chancellor needs chartering authority in order to provide schools with more flexibility.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will decide whether to grant the charter to the recommended school at its Feb. 27 meeting in Malden.

... Standardized tests shine a spotlight on disparities in achievement — whether for students of color or those with special needs — so districts can steer teacher support and dollars wisely, said Taylor Rub, a special education teacher at the Minneapolis charter Bright Water Elementary.

◦ To provide parents with sufficient information on whether their child is reading at grade level and whether the child gains at least a year's worth of learning for every year spent in the charter school

The national board of the NAACP, which has long expressed concern about charter schools, is scheduled this weekend to vote on whether to approve a resolution — passed at the group's convention this past summer — that calls for a moratorium on their expansion.

Earlier this year, the city council created a steering committee to determine whether students at charter schools - many of whom are low - income students of color whose families struggle to afford college - are eligible for the scholarship funds.

Learning how to effectively tell your charter story - whether meeting with your legislator, attending a community event, talking with a reporter or chatting at the soccer sidelines - helps charter students everywhere.

First and foremost, TCSA is student - focused and this team seeks to support public charter schools that meet the needs of students whether it is a college preparatory campus focused on STEM or a charter at a residential treatment center.

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?

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.

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

Education reform, largely a footnote in the presidential campaign, emerged at the tail end of last night's debate in a brief exchange between the candidates over whether D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee supports vouchers or charter schools.

«And at the end of the day, the state board has to own the decision as to whether or not we sign off on the charter.»

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

At the same time, parents in many neighborhoods still do not have viable options for sending their children to a school that provides a world - class education, whether it is a public, neighborhood, magnet, selective enrollment, charter or specialized school.

Asked whether students enrolled in state online public charter schools are prohibited from participating in JROTC programs in their local public school, Gary Mealer, program specialist at the Georgia Department of Education, told the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, «Yes, JROTC students must be enrolled at the high school where the approved JROTC program is being offered in order to participate.