Sentences with phrase «better than charter schools»

They were also doing better than charter schools.

The achievement results are strong, and the pilot schools are doing better than the charter schools at attracting special - education students and English - language learners to their already diverse student populations.

Not exact matches

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

«There is already a mechanism in place to hold charter schools accountable; Mike Mulgrew should know this better than anyone because his was closed.

btw, charters provide a better education than the NYC public schools and they make money to boot.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

Tisch says she supports charters — going so far as to tell The Post in a recent interview that the schools have «no better advocate» than her.

Referring to lawsuits that would reverse approved charter co-locations, Merriman told reporters: «I have a simple question for [the mayor]: can he look every parent in the eye who expects to send their child to these schools in the fall and say to them, «The school that I will now force you to go to is going to be better than the school that I am taking away from you and is your choice.»»

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

Success Charter Network's first school, Harlem Success Academy I on West 118th Street, scored better on the DOE's 2009 - 10 school progress reports than both P.S. 199 and the well - regarded P.S. 87.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Yes, charter schools on the whole perform no better or worse than existing public schools, but they've allowed educators to experiment with new approaches to problem solving.

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

EN: Some studies have shown charter schools in Florida are no better than the district - operated schools.

Along these same lines, the Mathematica study shows that students who change to charter schools do not perform better than those who did not change schools..

Charters are not producing better results than private school choice.

There is a large charter school literature than can inform the methods for this research, and there is some magnet literature as well.

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.

In 2013, more than 80 percent of New Orleans public school students attend charter schools, including 12 charters that are authorized by the Orleans Parish School Board, which still operates six of its own schools asschool students attend charter schools, including 12 charters that are authorized by the Orleans Parish School Board, which still operates six of its own schools asSchool Board, which still operates six of its own schools as well.

Charter and replacement schools have fared better than other turnaround strategies.

New Survey Shows Majority of Independent Voters Favor Charter Schools, feel Unions do «More Harm than Good»

It showed that among the 16 states studied, there was wide variation in charter quality, and that while lots of charters were doing well, lots were doing worse than local district schools.

1) Entry Grade Level: Charters that enroll at the K - 1 level did dramatically better than those (like Democracy Prep) who enroll in the middle school grades.

Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if they attend a traditional public school.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

Could well - regulated charter schools be a better symbol of our democracy than the public school?

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

It bears noting that these charter results are significantly better than the national average CREDO reported in 2009, in which just 17 percent of charter schools in the 16 states they studied performed better than their district counterparts.

Another study, by Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, found positive, but by their admission «not great,» results: Detroit charter high schools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than preschools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than preSchools performed worse than predicted.

For instance, there is suggestive evidence that charter schools perform better in contexts where accountability is high (that is, where strong authorizing laws shut down poorly performing schools) than where it is weak or nonexistent.

The newspapers are much more supportive of charter schools than of No Child Left Behind, with charters receiving an average score of 4.1 (meaning the papers are «somewhat supportive» on average), compared to 1.2 for NCLB (meaning the papers are slightly better than neutral on average).

It's no secret that the HR practices of private and charter schools — neither of which typically practices tenure — work far better than those of district schools from the standpoint of both school leaders and their students.

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

The heart of the piece is the claim that Detroit has experienced a dramatic increase in charter schools, but those new schools are no better or often worse than the traditional public schools.

In math, 47 percent of Detroit charter schools perform significantly better than their local peers, the same proportion as for the charters as a whole statewide.»

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

The Times editors fault DeVos for supposedly supporting «legislative changes that have reduced oversight and accountability» for charter schools — a charge that treads a thin line between exaggeration and falsehood — and laments that DeVos wants to expand school choice in Detroit, where supposedly «charter schools often perform no better than traditional schools, and sometimes worse» [links in the original].

These outcomes are consistent with the result that charter schools have significantly better results than TPS for minority students who are in poverty.

No fewer than 17 senior officials gave speeches during the week in 20 charter schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia, as well as at one statewide charter conference.

As the article puts it: «But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.»

Students in district schools with three or more charter schools within a one - mile radius perform significantly better in math than students with just one charter in the neighborhood, and they are also significantly less likely to be retained.

Like other skeptics, Carter seized on a 2010 report from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes that portrayed many charter schools as doing no better, and indeed sometimes worse, than traditional schools nationwide.