Sentences with phrase «charter schools in other states»

The one objection with a kernel of truth is that the overall record of charter schools in other states has been uneven.

Ryan Grant, a fifth grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states plus the experience of parenting a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

Massachusetts charter schools have a number of organizational features in common with charter schools in other states.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

«The State Board of Education was aware of the abysmal educational outcomes of virtual charter schools in other states when they approved the state's two virtual charters,» Ellinwood said.

The school's network, Pathways in Education, also operates charter schools in other states, including California and Illinois.

North Carolina's warming to virtual schools will be welcome news to investors, who have seen online charter schools in other states scale back their involvement with K12, Inc. as school leaders take over the management functions from the company.

Ryan Grant, a fifth - grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states, plus the experience of having a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

South Carolina was among the first states to pass a charter school law, in 1996; today it has 44 charters (2 percent of total public school enrollment), as compared to hundreds of charter schools in some other states, such as California, Arizona, and Florida.

Aside from Georgia (which has only three charter schools), the average racial composition of charter schools in the other states is similar to their statewide averages.

According to then - WEA president Charles Hasse in a Nov. 2004 Web posting: «In general, charter schools in other states have failed to outperform regular public schools and have not lived up to their supporters» promises.»

Further research is needed to test whether our quasi-experimental findings in Florida hold up in randomized experimental studies and in charter schools in other states.