Sentences with phrase «attending charter schools»

The distribution of students currently attending charter schools across the country is far from even.

The number of students attending charter schools has exploded in recent years, with kids attending these institutions in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

In some cities, like Boston and New Orleans, students attending charter schools have demonstrated significant test score gains.

Do students attending charter schools outperform their peers?

When it was chosen for this study, it had grown to be authorizer of 120 charter schools and 46 % of public school students in the district were attending charter schools.

California continues to lead the nation in number of students attending charter schools by state.

The district estimates that 44 percent of the decline can be attributed to students attending charter schools, which continue to grow.

The Los Angeles Unified School District alone has 150,000 students attending charter schools, which to put into perspective is about half of Idaho's total K - 12 public school enrollment.

Students attending charter schools account for 96 % of that growth.

Students attending charter schools affiliated with a Charter Management Organization have better learning gains than district school peers in both reading and math.

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?

It is imperative that the thousands of Arizona students attending charter schools are not left out of funding equity determinations going forward.

Typical is a study released by Stanford researchers in 2013 that showed black students gained the equivalent of 14 days of learning by attending charter schools and that black students living in poverty saw even greater benefits, gaining the equivalent of 29 days in reading and 36 days in math.

We commend Governor Brown for bringing forward a proposed budget that protects the interests of all public schools while securing fairer funding for students attending charter schools.

is to advocate for students with diverse learning needs to ensure that if they are interested in attending charter schools, they are able to access and thrive in schools designed to enable all students to succeed.

The performance of black low - income students attending charter schools in large cities is particularly striking.

In Santa Ana and Anaheim, declining enrollment has been exacerbated by an increase in the number of students attending charter schools.

The portion of public school students attending charter schools is from 2014.

NCSECS was formed in 2013 with the goal to advocate for students with diverse learning needs to ensure that if they are interested in attending charter schools, they are able to access and thrive in schools designed to enable all students to succeed.

With approximately 1/3 of Philly's students attending charter schools and many more on long wait lists, our communities can not afford semi-committed charters.

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

Nationally, 70 % of black students attending charter schools are at schools where approximately 90 % of the students are black.

It has steadily expanded its program offerings and financial services as the charter school movement has grown from a single school in Minnesota over 20 years ago to millions of students attending charter schools in 43 states and the District of Columbia today, with 600,000 families on charter school waiting lists nationwide.

This year, more than 185,000 Arizona students are attending charter schools; meanwhile, district enrollment has been stagnant or in decline since at least 2012.

Over 150 parents, teachers and community members showed up at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers offices on Tuesday night to see a free screening of Backpack Full of Cash, the documentary about the growth of the charter industry in the U.S. Pittsburgh has a growing charter sector, with about 11 % of students attending charter schools.

The Association also released data on school districts with the highest percentage of public school students attending charter schools.

Another way to proceed is to remove all students attending any charter schools in the District of Columbia (no matter what entity is the authorizer).

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

The authors reported that 92 % of all students attending charter schools in the Denver and DC areas traveled 10 miles or less, 72 % travelled less than five miles, and 25 % travelled less than a mile.

In my essay, I did my best to put to one side data for those students who were attending charter schools not authorized by the district.

The chart below displays results when all students attending charter schools are excluded from the analysis for all years for which information on charter schools is available.

In fact, if anything, the current research shows stronger impacts for students receiving vouchers than for students attending charter schools.

For kids with disabilities, 16 percent of those attending charter schools were proficient in reading, compared with 10 percent of public - school students.

The average gain for FRL students attending charter schools, however, equaled 17 points — more than double the national average gain.

Improvement for students from low - income families attending charter schools has, however, doubled the national average gain.

With 93 percent of its public - school students attending charter schools, New Orleans has the largest share of students enrolled in charters of any U.S. city.

This can be inferred from other surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, which have found that 2011 — 12 enrollments in magnet schools constitute 2.1 million students, slightly more than the 1.8 million students attending charter schools.

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

More significantly, Ginsburg ignores the fact that the D.C. NAEP sample in 2009 did not include students attending charter schools not authorized by the district, while in 2007 all charter school students were included.

We find higher levels of satisfaction among parents of children attending charter schools than among those attending district schools, but lower levels of satisfaction than among those whose children attend private schools.

Students attending charter schools also report substantially lower levels of negative peer effects and modestly lower levels of student input in their schools.

The state funds students attending charter schools while still funding districts as though those students had remained.

In 2014 — 15, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah were respectively ranked first, second, and third among states in the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schools.

He attributed the hike to the increased number of children attending the charter schools, a rise from 850 to about 1,000 last year.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

Those of us whose children are attending a charter school may face additional opposition.

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

«Most kids who attend a charter school in New York come from low - income families of color who can't afford to move into a better school district.

Luis Garden Acosta, the founder of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice and the father of a child who attended a charter school, said FES was «race - baiting.»

«Our kids are in a great school and quite simply we're hoping that everybody else gets the opportunity to do the same,» said Nina Zito, 44, of Manhattan, whose two daughters attend a charter school.