Sentences with phrase «attendance at a charter school»

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.

We use common statistical procedures to estimate the effect on math and reading test scores of each additional year of actual attendance at a charter school.

Not exact matches

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.

Moskowitz, the de facto leader of the local charter movement who attacked de Blasio's position on charter schools during the primary, made attendance at the march mandatory for her parents and students, but she remained relatively inconspicuous throughout the morning.

Our results show that each year of attendance at an oversubscribed Boston charter school increases the math test scores of students in our sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

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.

Two recent studies, one by Joshua Angrist and colleagues and another by Matthew Johnson and colleagues, found that attendance at urban charter middle schools with high behavioral expectations is associated with a higher number of days suspended relative to attendance at traditional schools in the same districts.

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These lotteries, which admit applicants randomly at over-subscribed schools, are used to construct a quasi-experimental research design that should generate unbiased estimates of the causal effects of charter and pilot attendance.

To assess the spillover effect of charter schools on students at district schools, I analyze how individual students» test scores, attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a charter 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.

To be eligible charter schools must serve a student population with at least 55 percent of their pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals (FRL), or they must be physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school with 55 percent or more FRL qualified students.

The first peer - reviewed research released on co-location, the study looked at nearly 900,000 students in grades 3 - 5 who attended a traditional public school in an attendance zone that included a charter school serving at least one of those grades between 1996 and 2010.

27a — 8 In the case of a proposal to establish a charter school by converting an existing public school or attendance center to charter school status, evidence that the proposed formation of the charter school has received majority support from certified teachers and from parents and guardians in the school or attendance center affected by the proposed charter, and, if applicable, from a local school council, shall be demonstrated by a petition in support of the charter school signed by certified teachers and a petition in support of the charter school signed by parents and guardians and, if applicable, by a vote of the local school council held at a public meeting.

But the now - empty building at the corner Eighteenth Avenue and Livingston Street — slated perhaps to house a charter school but with only a custodian in attendance yesterday — presents a telling and complicated lesson about school reform.

The study looked at 13 charter schools in APS, Fulton or DeKalb that set priority attendance zones, meaning seats go first to students in a specific area.

Many of you have written to say how much you appreciate our on - scene reporting of neighborhood street crime, our close coverage of your children's charter schools or our elected officials, our regular attendance at neighborhood meetings and our promotion of events in the Uptown area.

SRC - 1 Adoption of Proposed Policies: Policy 248 Harassment and Discrimination of Students; Policy 348 Harassment and Discrimination of Employees; Policy 406 Charter Amendments; Policy 904 Public Attendance at School Events; Policy 907 School Visitors; Policy 913 Non-school Organizations / Groups / Individuals

We find that attendance at a charter high school is associated with a higher likelihood of persisting in college for at least two years.

On behalf of our members, TCSA recently submitted public comments to Education Commissioner Mike Morath on matters impacting students at public charter schools: New Instructional Facility Allotment and separately, the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook.

While the article focused on Ballou, the report from the state superintendent's office examined attendance and grading practices across the city, determining that truancy is more severe at neighborhood schools such as Ballou than in charter or application schools.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a charter school to unenroll any student currently in attendance at the time this act takes effect.

Whack, at the District, says it's too soon to count on those graduation numbers, and that the charter office does score schools on «college readiness outcomes» including high school graduation rates, attendance, SAT / ACT performance, and AP coursework.

For the public - school teachers to attend a group meeting after hours with the principal (as happens at least once a week on the charter side) would cost $ 41.98 extra per hour for each attendee, and attendance would still be voluntary.

Meal programs at Charter Schools that do not qualify for free meals must record attendance according to eligibility and then record meals taken at the point of service.

Question: Can a charter school calculate a student incarcerated at a juvenile detention center into its Average Daily Attendance (ADA)?

We use admissions lotteries to estimate effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation and enrollment.