Sentences with phrase «charter school students do»

As Kelley notes in his legal review, charter operators often argue that all that matters is whether charter school students do well on standardized tests and that parents are generally satisfied with the schools» performance compared to public schools.

The HMK study investigates how well charter school students do when attending schools popular enough with parents to be oversubscribed compared to attending a traditional NYC public school.

The results, released in September, show that only one - third of LA students in traditional public schools performed up to their grade level in English and one - fourth did so in math but that the city's charter school students did much better.

«This year's preliminary results show that 83 percent of charter school students scored higher in English Language Arts than their district counterparts, while 78 percent of charter school students did the same in math.

Not exact matches

Cuomo and Flanagan also want to make it even easier for charter schools to reject, and even kick out, students who don't do well academically and might tarnish the pretty statistics charter schools often paint to suggest they present a much better alternative to traditional public schools.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co lCharter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co lcharter schools are co located.

He added that the school also takes in new students midyear, which many charters do not.

We're proud of the fact that we don't test and expel students like some charter schools do.»

Eva S. Moskowitz says her network of charter schools has room to improve in how it serves students with disabilities but does not discriminate against them.

Mr. de Blasio is critical of charter schools, saying that they do not serve enough of the most difficult students and that they increase the burden on regular public schools.

Eva S. Moskowitz, in response to a New York Times article about the list, said the charter school network did not have a practice of pushing out difficult students.

They say the test results show that charter school students scored higher on the exams than did public school students.

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

But if groups of failing schools are eventually turned into charters, it could give the sector an opportunity to dispel the common criticism charters don't enroll sufficient numbers of high - needs students.

Small towns and rural areas also generally don't have enough students to support significant choice options or charter schools within the public school system.

«The numbers are undeniable that charter schools haven't done well in serving those students, who have a great need for school access,» explained Lasher, who is also advocating to eliminate the state income tax for public school teachers.

Matthew Titone, who has 954 students on waiting lists in his district on Staten Island's North Shore, said charter schools in his area «do excellent work serving kids with special needs.»

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

The bills that were passed also failed to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state — but they did unlock a cash freeze that has prevented charters from getting their first increase in per - student funding since 2009.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district sCharter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district scharter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

Opponents of the new school said the co-location would drain resources and space from public school students and that charter schools don't pay their fair share for using public school space.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

Michelle Arellano, the chapter leader at Manhattan's PS 138, a District 75 school that is co-located with a Harlem Success Academy charter school, said it's clear to her that charter schools are not accepting the same high - needs students enrolled in her school and that her school does not have the resources it needs.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

«Charter school teachers want representation, and a voice to help do what is best for their students,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

Some states already have been singled out as falling behind because they have laws that hinder data linking students and teachers, including California and New York, or don't have charter school legislation, such as Maine, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

Schools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upSchools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upschools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upgrades.

That difference was the result of some $ 5,500 per student in local tax dollars going to district schools that charters such as Omega did not receive — all this in addition to money for facilities and other outlays that were also denied to Ohio charters.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

«I had expectations of what the parents were supposed to do,» says Melissa Bryant, a math teacher and dean of students at D.C. Scholars Stanton Elementary, a novel partnership between the Washington, D.C., public schools and Scholar Academies, a charter operator.

Of course, I do not mean to imply that no student has been inappropriately removed by a charter school because of his disability.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

While employment contracts make it almost impossible to redesign a traditional school around the needs of students, we can do that redesign at our charter school.

The overall special - education gap does not appear to be heavily influenced by relatively low enrollment of students with severe disabilities in charter schools.

In kindergarten, 5.6 percent of students who listed at least one charter school as one of their five preferences had an IEP, while 7.8 percent of students who did not list a preference for a charter school had an IEP.

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.

However, if we do not control for school policies and look at the simple correlation between a charter school's years in operation and student achievement, we find that older schools have more positive achievement effects.

Four Corners charter students do well on NAEP, even when compared to public school students in Massachusetts, the highest - performing state.

Because the oversubscribed charter schools in our sample admit students via random lotteries, comparing the outcomes of lottery winners (most of whom enrolled in a charter school) and lottery losers (most of whom did not) is akin to a randomized - control trial of the kind often used in medical research.

The fact that 72.6 percent of Ohio's charter schools operate in urban areas likely has something to do with the fact that the state's suburbs continue to opt out of enrolling students from other districts.

But in too many parts of the country, weak authorizing systems have encouraged a proliferation of charter schools — particularly virtual and for - profit ones — that don't serve students well and taint the broader reputation of charters.

It is difficult to pin down the relative quality of charter and district schools with confidence without studies that use admissions lotteries to compare the achievement of students who win charter - school admission to those who don't.

Worrying about its impact to the point of delaying the opening of virtual charter schools, which provide an option that is critical for some students» success, does not make sense.

Along these same lines, the Mathematica study shows that students who change to charter schools do not perform better than those who did not change schools..

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.