Sentences with phrase «charter schools in»

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

Last year the New York Times published an op - ed arguing that the seeming success of charter schools in Harlem is driven by their willingness to push out students with disabilities, and that such «charter school refugees» drain district schools of resources.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has brokered «compacts» between districts and charter schools in 14 cities.

EN: Some studies have shown charter schools in Florida are no better than the district - operated schools.

This situation endangers the basic accountability equation that served as the rationale for creating charter schools in the first place.

Since students who apply to charter schools are assigned to enrollment randomly, we can have some confidence that the characteristics of those who enter charter schools in kindergarten mimic those of the students who apply.

Besides the for - profit and nonprofit providers already mentioned, charter schools in some places have formed cooperatives and associations to take advantage of economies of scale.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

The study reported here thus differs from virtually all other published research on charter schools in its reliance on experimental methods to determine the schools» effectiveness.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

Three types of organizations operate charter schools in New York City: nonprofit community - grown organizations (CGOs), nonprofit charter management organizations (CMOs), and for - profit education management organizations (EMOs).

The charter schools in D.C. that serve a highly diverse student body face a challenge in preserving their diversity, Chandler notes, as these schools become increasingly popular with the growing population of gentrifiers.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

Several of the compacts address facilities directly, and buildings will be provided at no or low cost for at least some charter schools in Denver; Hartford, Connecticut; Los Angeles; New Orleans; and other sites.

For example, in 2011, charter schools in Washington, D.C., paid $ 3.2 million in rent to the D.C. archdiocese, which distributed it to support local parishes in 2011 — a substantial portion ($ 900,000 a year) went toward tuition assistance for students in remaining Catholic schools.

Create magnet or charter schools in strategic locations to draw middle - class and poor students alike.

More students with IEPs enter charter schools in non-gateway grades than exit them.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

We address two main questions about charter schools in the city.

Education Next's Paul E. Peterson analyzes public opinion on charter schools in «Why Does the NAACP Oppose Charter Schools?»

The Nashville agreement, for example, promises to «include charter schools in the long - term strategic plans of the district including, but not limited to, student assignment planning and facility usage.»

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

In sum, in the largest lottery - based evaluation of charter schools to date, we find that charter schools in New York City are having positive effects on the academic progress of the students who attend them.

That's because in both New York and Denver more students with IEPs enter charter schools in grades after kindergarten than exit them.

Alexander Russo wrote a feature article about the phenomenon of diverse charter schools in the Winter 2013 issue of Ed Next.

Two of them have held the top spot for charter schools in U.S. News & World Report in Los Angeles; one just won an award in the Washington Post.

A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York City by opening more than 100 charter schools in high - poverty communities.

For instance, charter schools in rural areas are eligible for loan guarantees under a U.S. Department of Agriculture program.

On Top of the News Success Academy Gets $ 8.5 Million to Add Charter Schools in New York City New York Times 7/30/15

The high school is the only public high school Public charter schools in Chula Vista and San Diego specializing in math, science, and engineering.

Despite dramatic growth in enrollment in online charter schools in Ohio, students are not achieving the same academic success as those in brick - and - mortar charter and public schools, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and RAND Corporation.

The public schools in eight states — Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah — and the charter schools in a number of others, for example, recognize the guided self - study program of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.

The Buffalo region has the most charter schools in the state outside New York City — one in Niagara County and 18 in Erie County, which includes the two that opened this year.

About 95,000 students are enrolled at 207 charter schools in the Big Apple, but de Blasio has frequently sparred with operators of the schools, which mostly run without the teachers union.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

WHEREAS Wall Street financier and private equity fund manager Steven Klinsky is the founder of Victory Education Partners, Inc., a privately held, for - profit educational management company that manages charter schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois; and

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein continued their full - court press to increase the number of charter schools in New York with a race to the pews on Sunday.

In the final hours of this year's legislative session, for instance, the Republican - controlled Senate demanded a number of concessions for charter schools in exchange for granting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control of city schools.

Carl Heastie, center, the Assembly speaker, has refused to yield to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in New York State.

Charter schools in New York City will now enjoy some of the greatest protections in the country.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

The New York City Charter School Center released on April 30 its much - anticipated report on the state of charter schools in the city.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan have both advanced proposals that would continue the city's 15 - year - old receivership of the municipal education system but include provisions lifting the cap on new charter schools in the five boroughs.

That is why the union movement at charter schools in New York and elsewhere in the country is so vital.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

«There has been no greater champion of charter schools in a public role than I have been,» says Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch.

«There has been no greater champion of charter schools in a public role than I have been, for years now, before charter schools became popular,» Tisch told reporters at a Crain's New York event held at the Yale Club.