Sentences with phrase «charter and traditional public schools»

We did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

The gap in special education rates between charter and traditional public schools grows considerably as students progress from kindergarten through third grade.

We found substantial differences in the background characteristics of charter and traditional public school students.

When looking at the past four years, we see no statistical difference school wide in average suspension rates for charters and traditional public schools.

Are best practices being shared by various school systems, particularly among public charters and traditional public schools?

• What kinds of students are served by magnet schools and how do they differ from charters and traditional public schools in their same school districts?

Studies of the charter sector typically compare charters and traditional public schools at a point in time.

Private schools can charge families tuition above and beyond what the state will cover and aren't bound by many of the constitutional limits placed on charter and traditional public schools.

How do charter and traditional public schools differ in their adoption patterns?

There are still some states in need of a clean - up, but in most places, the pressing priority is to close the enormous funding gaps between charters and traditional public schools.

Why are there large gaps between the percentages of students classified as disabled in charter and traditional public schools?

We used carefully matched samples of charter and traditional public school students from Stanford's CREDO National Charter School Study to ensure that differences in student characteristics were unbiased.

In fact, there is little evidence that using a voucher to enroll in a private school improves student test scores, and any differences in the average performance of charter and traditional public schools by this metric are modest relative to the amount of variation in performance within the charter sector.

In our re-analysis published in Education Next, we focused most of our efforts reanalyzing the CRP analysis comparing charter and traditional public schools at the CBSA level — the Core - Based Statistical Area that the Census Bureau uses to define a metropolitan area.

Most of these teachers are not unionized, which remains a source of major tension between charter and traditional public school advocates.

City Comptroller John Liu vowed to put a moratorium on school closures and also promised to end the policy of co-locating charter and traditional public schools in the same buildings, which he said has been disruptive at many schools.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

A reanalysis of the data used in the UCLA report found much smaller differences between charter and traditional public schools once more appropriate comparisons were made between the two groups of schools.

Finally, the authors consider the hypersegregation in charter and traditional public schools individually within 39 metropolitan areas.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

Rates of classification in what might be considered the more severe (and less subjective) categories of special education — autism, speech or language impairment, or intellectual disability — remain quite similar in charter and traditional public schools over time.

While the official release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data demonstrated that the sky had not fallen — after controlling for race, as many had pointed out, any differences between charters and traditional public schools washed out — the news was no reason to celebrate either.

When the NAEP numbers are controlled for levels of enrollment of African - American and Latino students, the performance disparity between charter and traditional public schools largely disappears.

Despite his fraught political history with charter schools, on the first day of class today Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to see charter and traditional public schools sharing ideas with each other more often.

Enrollment has never recovered to pre-Katrina levels; the city's charter and traditional public schools served roughly 40,000 students last school year.

School districts and their local partners in inner cities and rural communities are overcoming poverty and family breakdown to create high - performing schools, including charters and traditional public schools.

In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single - offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp.

[AFT and NEA] also recognized that such new national initiatives as the Common Core standards and President Obama's Race for the Top meant that teachers at charter and traditional public schools faced similar challenges that the unions could help them address.»

In order to better understand these issues, CCSA began work to investigate differences between charter and traditional public school suspension rates.

This is why it is important that charter and traditional public schools break down many of the barriers that exist between the two types of schools and work collaboratively in a myriad of ways that they can co-locate and cooperate in sharing best practices.

Ladd also re-emphasized the stark differences between the populations served by North Carolina charters and traditional public schools.

Recently he sat down with me to discuss the school - to - prison pipeline, the role of charter schools in fostering necessary change, and how charter and traditional public schools can be partners instead of adversaries.

D.C. law requires equal per - pupil allocations for public charter and traditional public schools.

Explaining the gap in charter and traditional public school teacher turnover rates.

On February 7, AEI hosted a discussion about new research on how the student compositions of charter and traditional public schools differ.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

This annual event brings together all the 1,000 or so teachers who work in Friendship Schools, an excellent group of charter and traditional public schools in Washington, DC and Baltimore (which are featured in our other short film, Unchartered Territory, along with their inspirational leader Donald Hense).

However, research that focused on administrative costs between charters and traditional public schools in Michigan suggests the size difference might only explain about $ 130 of the per pupil gap.

Next, we calculated the total number of charter schools and the total enrollment in charters and traditional public schools in each school district.

Based on a wealth of existing evidence, however, we are unable to share in the team's optimism that more complete data might show narrower differences in segregation between charter and traditional public schools.

But comparisons of simple averages at such a high level of aggregation can obscure wide differences in school - level demographics among both charter and traditional public schools.

Indeed, we find the majority of students in the central cities of metropolitan areas, in both charter and traditional public schools, attend school in intensely segregated settings.

Finally, research conducted by Robert Bifulco and Helen Ladd («Results from the Tar Heel State: Charter Schools and Student Achievement,» research, Fall 2005) indicates that North Carolina charter schools during this period may have been less effective in improving student achievement than were traditional public schools, at least for students who attended both charter and traditional public schools between grades 4 and 8.