The district's own experts and its independent financial advisory panel have already identified numerous issues that are much
bigger than charters, some of which you've discussed today.
Not exact matches
Charter Communications tumbles 15 percent after the company reports a
bigger -
than - expected loss of video subscribers.
Aerospace and aviation are by far the
biggest segments of IMP, a conglomerate with revenue of more
than $ 1 - billion a year from interests spanning
charter airline CanJet and private aviation firm Innotech - Execaire Aviation Group.
He needs to fuel up the
big ol'
charter plane and travel from city to city, state to state in an effort to actually convince these NBA hopefuls that the JBA provides a better path to pro basketball
than playing for Jim Boeheim or John Calipari.
It's an indication of two things: that de Blasio learned from his tactical mistakes in confronting
charters last spring, and that the mayor has far
bigger items
than charters on his education agenda.
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.
According to research gathered under the auspices of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, the
charter story was even
bigger than the teacher union story, despite the recall election drama in Wisconsin and the bitter strike in Chicago.
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.
Charters probably aren't ever going to get
bigger than that.
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.
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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.
Some
charter backers see an opportunity in New York's waning national influence to focus on the problems at home, and to build a
bigger, fairer, less divided sector, with sustainable political ground game that can help
charters notch incremental wins rather
than just the dramatic victories they've come to expect.
Overall scores took a
big dive, and schools (
charter and district managed) that were doing little more
than drill and kill did especially poorly.
Asian
charter students showed the
biggest gains in English and math scores when compared to the state average for Asian students, scoring 12 percentage points higher in ELA
than their peers and 11 points better in math.
Charter school completion rates for college are substantially better than the overall numbers for big - city districts where most charter school students are l
Charter school completion rates for college are substantially better
than the overall numbers for
big - city districts where most
charter school students are l
charter school students are located.
And let's be real: The
Big Apple needs a real «revolution» that involves more
than adding
charter seats.
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.
The other
big news is that
charters appear more effective for lower rather
than higher SES students.
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 school math.
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It has led to some problems, but when I look at the
big picture, it's a hell of a lot better for the public to maintain the public facilities and allow
charter operators to use them, rather
than sell them off.
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.»
The study found that the
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FCC filings also indicate that
Charter may have
bigger ambitions
than just MVNO operations.