Sentences with phrase «charter schools in areas where»

Tuition scholarships for poor families are heavily oversubscribed as are charter schools in areas where officials restrict the size and number of charter schools despite the many families that desire to enroll their children.

Not exact matches

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

«We've noticed that many charter schools open in areas where there's a concern over performance of district schools,» Reilly said.

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

Even within contentious Santa Clara County, where most of the San Jose — area superintendents are doing their best to stiff - arm charter schools, the Franklin - McKinley school district brings in charters as welcome partners.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

As a result, this simple correlation tells us nothing about whether charters increase segregation or just tend to locate in areas where the schools are already segregated.

The point was that competition was most effective in areas where a fair number of charter schools had sprouted up.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

An interactive map shows the charter deserts in each area of the country, as well as pinpoints for where charter elementary schools are located.

Alternatively, charter schools might be more likely to attract students in areas where parents tend to be more motivated and more informed.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching...

In nonurban areas, where many students achieve at reasonably high levels even without a charter school option, parents may not be looking for this approach.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching practices into broader use, has long been a political hot topic.

In all, seven out of ten charter schools named at least one area where resource limitations produced some difficulty.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

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Mandating that students work to pay off tuition, forging partnerships with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts — these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school - closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located.

In those cases where the local districts don't have to share their money, area charter schools would still get capital aid from the state — $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 that's divided among all eligible charter schools statewide, even those getting a cut of local moneIn those cases where the local districts don't have to share their money, area charter schools would still get capital aid from the state — $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 that's divided among all eligible charter schools statewide, even those getting a cut of local monein 2017 - 18 that's divided among all eligible charter schools statewide, even those getting a cut of local money.

Most Michigan charter schools are located in metropolitan areas, where the population is dense and diverse, and per - pupil funding is higher.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

Ratliff said the state should be more involved in deciding where to allow charter schools so they're not concentrated in one area.

«Charter schools tend to arise in areas where students are disadvantaged and families have had little ability to exit underperforming schools,» Hoxby said.

Charter school operators with good track records would be able to apply to open new schools across the state, although the performance thresholds will be lower in areas where traditional school districts perform poorly and are in high - poverty areas.

To the many of you who don't live in charter school hotbeds, urban areas, or a community where a voucher school is geographically accessible, these headlines can therefore seem somewhat distant.

Academy for Urban Leadership Charter School in New Jersey held it's annual college fair where Juniors and Seniors were able to meet with college representatives all over the tri-state area for guidance with their journey into higher education!

The «Approve R - 55» group will point to the 12 of 13 charter schools in the Chicago area where students are outperforming their traditional public school counterparts on standardized tests and have higher graduation rates.

By allowing students to cross district lines, charter schools will now be able to open in high - need areas where the small size of many of the school districts has made the creation of a charter school virtually....

Such bills would cut funding for charters serving elementary - and middle - school grades, or subject charters to onerous state - approval processes for facilities, or eliminate the charter - friendly State University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union likes.

By allowing students to cross district lines, charter schools will now be able to open in high - need areas where the small size of many of the school districts has made the creation of a charter school....

I've argued in earlier columns that because charter schools aren't bound to geographic zones, they should be strategically placed to integrate areas where racial and economic segregation is reinforced by district lines.

We are not like other co-location sites where the charter school is located in a separate area that is set apart from the traditional school.

Because charter schools in many states and districts aren't bound to a particular geographic area, they have more leeway than traditional public schools in deciding where they can locate.

Charters have been in existence in the U.S. for close to 25 years and have demonstrated that all students can learn at high levels, even in urban areas where the challenges of schooling are intense.

Those are areas where public charter schools have grown quickly — in some neighborhoods enrolling more than half of public school students, the chancellor said — and leaving DCPS with half - empty buildings.

With the expansion this year, charter schools will now be able to open in high - need areas, such as the Delta, where the small size of many of the school districts has made the creation of a charter school virtually impossible.

And Howard Lappin, principal of Gertz - Ressler High School, a charter school located where Hoover Street meets the I - 10 Freeway, said people's perceptions of the average student in the South L.A. area are usually incoSchool, a charter school located where Hoover Street meets the I - 10 Freeway, said people's perceptions of the average student in the South L.A. area are usually incoschool located where Hoover Street meets the I - 10 Freeway, said people's perceptions of the average student in the South L.A. area are usually incorrect.

Step up to the «school choice» smorgasbord, where with Indiana phasing in one of the nation's most expansive school voucher programs and charter school options expanding (at least in urban areas), parents face a growing array of choices for where to send their kids to school.

By allowing students to cross district lines, charter schools will now be able to open in high - need areas where the small size of many of the school districts has made the creation of a charter school virtually impossible.

The findings highlight schools that enroll a higher or lower proportion of in - boundary students compared to schools in neighborhoods with similar characteristics, and identifies neighborhood characteristics of areas where families are most likely to send their children to public charter schools.

This law will also help many high - need areas of the state where the small size of many of the school districts, such as in the Delta, has made the creation of a charter school virtually impossible.

While there's much emphasis on the necessity of school choice («choice can strongly foster diversity and increase the options for students living in areas where the existing schools are weak») there's an oxymoronic antipathy towards public charter schools which, in our most segregated districts, are often the only choices available to families who can't afford private schools or out - of - district tuition.

Specifically, Bluum is most interested in where new innovative schools (charter, district or even private) should be built and opened to best meet the needs of the areas» growing and increasingly diverse student demographics.

Moving forward, we want to make sure that any new school expansion we support or encourage (be it district, charter public or private) are in areas where the need is greatest, and that the schools are actually providing programs and opportunities that meet the needs of their unique student population.

«High quality virtual charter schools provide valuable options to families, particularly those who live in rural areas where brick - and - mortar schools might not have the capacity to provide the range of courses or other educational experiences for students,» she wrote.

She said charter schools should be created in areas such as the South and Southwest sides where there are not as many public options.

«We should be working on things like tenure reform, where we got wide agreement from all the interested parties,» Greenwald said, «not on expanding on some ideological ground charter schools in areas that aren't served by them.»

Unlike most charter schools in the United States where attendance areas are widely dispersed, 13 Georgia charter schools have priority attendance zones, a feature that gives families a greater chance of admission.

But then when I threw geography into the mix, and found there were quite a few charters with relatively low at - risk numbers in areas where DCPS schools had at - risk populations near 50 percent, my takeaway was charters aren't creating as much diversity as you'd expect for a 100 % lottery system.

Your paper raises the spectre that a charter school «bubble» may be forming, particularly in urban areas where these schools are expanding the most rapidly, and often with the least oversight.