Sentences with phrase «bigger than charter schools»

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The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

If charter school networks and other retail - level education reforms want to attract the attention of potential clients, teachers, or donors, nothing beats the glitz and reach of talk and entertainment shows — and no one is bigger than Oprah.

Second, school choice is bigger than voucher programs and charter schools.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

Ku Kahakalau, the principal at Kanu o ka «Aina, a Big Island charter school, noted that a study last year paid for by the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs found that Native Hawaiian students in charter schools did better than Native Hawaiian students in traditional schools.

Now Debbie Meier, as many of you know, is not a big fan of charter schools, though she is a whole lot more nuanced about their existence than her blogging buddy, Ms. Ravitch.

By focusing only on the problems in charter schools, the series misses the bigger picture in Detroit: a lack of quality across both district and charter schools, turf battles rather than leadership and problem - solving, and splintered government oversight.

«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.

Overall scores took a big dive, and schools (charter and district managed) that were doing little more than drill and kill did especially poorly.

Charter school completion rates for college are substantially better than the overall numbers for big - city districts where most charter school students are lCharter school completion rates for college are substantially better than the overall numbers for big - city districts where most charter school students are lcharter school students are located.

The charter school company with its 2,600 students will get a bigger per - student and total dollar boost in funds than Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport, not to mention the opportunity to take over some of the «Commissioner's Network» schools.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

But the bigger problem with the district's statement may be this line, which said the 900 students who we know moved to charter schools was too small a number to impact the graduation rate: «Taken together, that is less than 1 percent of all the students in San Diego city schools.»

In a report on school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident reports over a period of several years.

Overall, students in charter schools have had bigger gains in both reading and math than similar students enrolled in the DC Public School system, especially when it comes to middle schoolSchool system, especially when it comes to middle schoolschool math.

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Of course, that sets O'Farrell up for one of the biggest criticisms against charter schools — that they suspend or expel kids at higher rates than traditional district schools.

The city's public charter schools, which had higher scores than the traditional system, made their biggest gains since 2009.

Honestly, I can't fathom what the justification would be other than if I'm one of the big chains (of charter schools) that wants leverage into Wisconsin.»