Sentences with phrase «attend traditional public high schools»

Invalid Displayed Gallery Students who attend Florida's charter high schools are more likely to graduate, go to college, stay in college and earn more than students who attend traditional public high schools.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

In Chicago, students who attended a charter high school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular high school diploma than their counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a traditional public high school.

However, there may still be unmeasured differences that explain why one charter 8th grader attends a charter high school while another charter 8th grader attends a traditional public high school.

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

The report also found that «charter schools are helping students achieve entry into higher levels of college education (16 percent) than they would have had they attended traditional public high schools (14 percent).

Not exact matches

In Florida, 57 percent of students who went from a charter school in 8th grade to a traditional public school in 9th grade received a standard high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders who attended a charter high school.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

The findings, which will be published in the spring issue of Education Next and are now online at www.EducationNext.org, show that students attending charter high schools in Florida and Chicago have an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and college enrollment when compared with their traditional public high school counterparts.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

One was that students not offered vouchers went on to attend high - performing public schools (either traditional or charter schools).

We find that students attending schools in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program score a staggering 16 percent higher than students in traditional public schools.

«All students should have the opportunity to attend a quality public school, and all schools, whether they are charter or traditional schools, should be held to the same high standards.

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»

For supporters and opponents alike, the first question concerns performance: are the academic outcomes of students attending charter schools higher or lower than those in the traditional public sector?

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.

In addition, at the national level in 2012 — 2013, the percentage of students attending high - poverty schools — those in which more than 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — was higher for charter schools (36 percent) than for traditional public schools (23 percent)(National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).

Higher percentages of charter school students of every race attend predominantly minority schools (50 - 100 % minority students) or racially isolated minority schools (90 - 100 % minority students) than do their same - race peers in 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.

That said, the highest - quality research studies find that charter schools tend to produce greater gains in math and reading test scores for traditionally disadvantaged students, compared to the gains these same students would achieve if they attended a traditional public school.

For example, CREDO compares two students with similar prior test scores both coming from low income and high parental education families, but one student now attends a charter school and the other attends a traditional public school.