Sentences with phrase «bad charter school group»

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After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed at protecting and growing the state's charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.

Along with the shift in goals, the public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools, to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse» than traditional public schools.

The relevant question today is no longer whether charter schools are good or bad as a group.

«The public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse,»» the book argues.

«We knew it was bad, but I never though it was this bad,» said Roberto Aguirrez, a parent leader with People Acting in Community Together, a group lobbying the Morgan Hill Unified District to approve charter schools and boost opportunities for Latino success.