Sentences with phrase «charter high schools tend»

Second, given that charter high schools tend to be much smaller than traditional public high schools, charter school effects might simply be attributable to their smaller size.

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States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

Broad analyses of charter performance have tended to show that they slightly outperform traditional public schools, especially at the middle and high school level, although critics say that could be because their students tend to come from more academically motivated families.

Charter schools attract proportionally more higher - performing, advantaged students and tend to «weed out» the lowest performers.

Their report found that, on average, charter school students in New York City tend to stay at their schools at a higher rate than do students at nearby traditional district schools.

PARCC scores tend to be lower for high schools with larger at - risk populations, though some schools defy expectations, especially charters.

They point out that charters tend to have a higher percentage of poor and minority children than most American schools, and in a sense they are right.

States like Arizona where a high percentage of public schools are charter schools tend to attract the charter management organizations because they are very supportive of those schools coming in and setting up shop.»

ELL students and students with disabilities tend to score lower on standardized tests, therefore charter schools look higher performing when they do not have either subgroup.

There tends to be, however, greater variability in charter school achievement, with the charter sector having a greater share of both low - performing and high - achieving schools.

Charter schools attract a higher percentage of black students than traditional public schools, in part because they tend to be located in urban areas.

Charters tend to have high levels of donations and grants, while schools with more wealthy students have the ability to run fundraisers that provide extra money for the school.

Charter schools tend to serve higher percentages of low - income students.

That said, the highest - quality research studies find that charter schools tend to produce greater gains in math and reading test scores for traditionally disadvantaged students, compared to the gains these same students would achieve if they attended a traditional public school.

Charter schools also tend to demonstrate greater learning gains for students in early grades than for students in high school.

The success of high - quality charter schools serving mostly - minority children in those urban communities (where the schools tend to also be segregated thanks to pernicious zip code education policies) also proves lie to the idea of integration as school reform.

Charter schools do not bring on equality; in fact they EXACERBATE INEQUALITY, as they tend to skim off the higher - performing students, leaving the regular public schools with a greater concentration of troubled children.

We know, for example, that charter teachers tend to exit schools at higher rates than other public teachers, which, all else being equal, could be detrimental to student outcomes.

This makes sense in terms of the text of Massachusetts» charter cap law itself, which, as discussed in the Definition section, places an emphasis on lower - performing school districts (tending towards cities, not suburbs) and higher population districts, with Commonwealth charter schools prohibited in communities with fewer than 30,000 residents.

Moreover, higher performing students tend to transition from district run schools to charters and lower performing students transition from charters to district run schools.

McIntosh's charges come amid growing claims from school choice critics that charters — publicly - funded schools with broad flexibility in their curriculum and staffing — may «cherrypick» or intentionally exclude some high - needs students, serving decidedly fewer low - income children and children with disabilities, populations that also tend to trail their peers academically.