Sentences with phrase «charter middle and high schools»

For example, DSST Public Schools, a network of charter middle and high schools in Denver, Colorado, reserves a minimum of 40 percent of seats at the flagship campus for low - income students; Blackstone Valley Prep in Rhode Island reserves 60 percent of seats.

Academic achievement at charter middle and high schools is higher than traditional district schools in several areas key to putting students on the path to college.

Our 27 public charter middle and high schools educate nearly 12,000 students from Los Angeles» most underserved communities.

In February 2014, CCSA released a report on Oakland public charter middle and high schools which shows that while the graduation rate at traditional district high schools has remained at 50 %, the average graduation rate at charter schools has increased to 68 %.

Charter middle and high schools produce test - score achievement gains that are, on average, similar to those of traditional public schools.

Ricardo was the founding principal for Larchmont Charter Middle and High School, an academically high - performing K - 12 charter school whose mission is to serve a racially, ethnically, and socio - economically diverse group of students.

He now leads STEM Prep, a charter management network that oversees a first - of - its - kind partnership between a traditional district elementary school, and recently merged charter middle and high school.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

That's scarcely enough to provide middle and high school seats for charter children now in grades K - 4 — let alone provide for even a minimal expansion of the program.

Electeds Urge «No» on Proposal to Co-Locate High School in Existing I.S. 109 District Middle School QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, QueHigh School in Existing I.S. 109 District Middle School QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, QSchool in Existing I.S. 109 District Middle School QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, QMiddle School QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, QSchool QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, Quehigh school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, Qschool at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, QSchool, an existing district middle school in Hollis, Qmiddle school in Hollis, Qschool in Hollis, Queens:

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, anCharter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, ancharter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

Western New York Maritime Charter School, fresh off moving its middle school to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnSchool, fresh off moving its middle school to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnschool to a new location in South Buffalo, is now planning a major expansion of that building to accommodate its high school and a new gymnschool and a new gymnasium.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Tennenbaum, which was recently renamed to honor a big donation by the founder of a Los Angeles hedge fund, is part of Alliance College Ready Public Schools, a charter management organization with 14 high schools and 6 middle schools throughout Los ASchools, a charter management organization with 14 high schools and 6 middle schools throughout Los Aschools and 6 middle schools throughout Los Aschools throughout Los Angeles.

McCurry and Toll wanted to replicate the success of Amistad Academy, a high - performing charter middle school they opened in New Haven in 1999.

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

That group (full disclosure — I am a member) has proposed giving incentives to states if they enact legislation that encourage community colleges, universities, charter schools, and other providers to offer virtual courses to high school and middle school students over the internet.

In order to examine whether charter - school effects might be attributable to eliminating the transition between middle and high school, we restricted the Florida analysis to those students whose 8th - grade charter school did not offer 9th grade and ran our analyses again.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

In the traditional public school sector in both Florida and Chicago, high schools are almost always separate from middle schools, which is not the case for charter schools.

In Chicago, 40 percent of charter middle schools offered both middle - and high - school grades, and nearly half of the 8th - grade charter students could attend at least some high - school grades without changing schools.

Kristin Kearns - Jordan: The Urban Assembly is a family of 21 district middle and high schools throughout New York City, plus one start - up charter school.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

Using 2015 test - score data and comparing schools with similar percentages of low - income kids, charters outperform DPS - operated schools at the middle and high school level but not at the elementary level, where there are only 10 charters.

We also work with more than 900 middle school students who don't attend our charter school and 1,080 Harlem high schoolers.

Because Denver's two largest and most successful charter networks, DSST and STRIVE Prep, started with high schools and middle schools, respectively, the city's charters are unusually concentrated at the secondary level.

If one looks at the data for elementary and middle schools separately, however, it appears that in the higher grades, charters have a positive impact in reading on higher - income students relative to the district schools.

The Urban Assembly is a family of 21 district middle and high schools throughout New York City, plus one start - up charter school.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

Here and there, a few school - reform advocates began to realize that diverse charter schools might be a way to engage middle - class parents, and that focusing exclusively on high - poverty minority communities was an understandable but flawed strategy.

A public middle school and high school in Whitfield County, Georgia show how to recreate the learning strategies of a renowned charter school in a traditional setting.

She accepted CBP's second match, with a four - campus middle - and high - school charter, where she'll sit on the finance committee.

Of the many arguments for charter schools, one is crucial: that charters should be deliberately, thoughtfully, boldly different from existing mainline public middle and high schools.

They demonstrate that attending an oversubscribed charter middle or high school has a clear positive effect on students» math and reading achievement, but also find that this «on - average» result obscures dramatic variation.

Two recent studies, one by Joshua Angrist and colleagues and another by Matthew Johnson and colleagues, found that attendance at urban charter middle schools with high behavioral expectations is associated with a higher number of days suspended relative to attendance at traditional schools in the same districts.

Could a charter middle school with high academic expectations and an emphasis on project - based STEM learning find footing in the district?

The Cuban American rapper Pitbull helped open the Sports and Leadership Academy, or SLAM, a charter school serving middle - and high - schoolers interested in sports - management careers, in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood in 2013.

For one thing, the student - teacher ratio is smaller in charter high schools while the school day and year are longer in both charter high schools and charter middle schools.

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

Middle - school students who won a charter lottery scored about 0.25 standard deviations (hereafter, σ) higher on ELA and 0.40 σ higher in math, a result shown in column 2 of Table 4 (labeled «reduced form»).

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

For middle - and high - school levels, the research team found that achievement gains in charter schools and traditional public schools were about the same, with two exceptions.

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Prior to joining the team, Dan worked in district and charter schools for 17 years, first as a high school English teacher and later as a Director of Academics in middle and elementary schools.

KIPP is a non-profit network of 209 college - preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.