Sentences with phrase «charter schools as a whole»

So, overall, I don't think there is a theoretical argument against charter schools as a whole, but there is one about the conception of them in the charter school movement.

By contrast, results for charter schools as a whole in New York City were unremarkable.

Not only are most receiving an inadequate education, but also the sheer size of the group skews the perception of performance of charter schools as a whole.

While individual schools like those profiled in last year's hit documentaries and the Raleigh Charter School have been praised for their successes, some scholars have found that charter schools as a whole don't necessarily provide a better education than the traditional school system, and sometimes provide a worse education.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

SM: There has been a lot of talk about charter schools in the context of education reform, yet some studies have shown that charter schools as a whole don't necessarily perform better than traditional public schools.

Statistics for charter schools as a whole are hard to come by, but the best estimate puts charters» college persistence rates at around 23 %.