Sentences with phrase «attended by a high powered»

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Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ charter middle school on students» test scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen at high - performing charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).

That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).

According to a study by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters on promoting power, 20 % of all minority students in California attend «dropout factories,» or high schools where there are 40 % or fewer seniors than freshmen four years earlier.»