Sentences with phrase «charter schools in urban areas»

The dramatic expansion of charter schools in urban areas has provided families with tuition - free alternatives to district schools, making it difficult for tuition - dependent Catholic schools to compete.

Students attending charter schools in urban areas receive the equivalent of 40 days of additional learning per year in math and 28 additional days per year in reading.

They described their decision to compare the racial enrollment of charter schools to central city schools as «the best available unit of comparison,» arguing that the geographic concentration of charter schools in urban areas merits a comparison of schools only located within urban districts.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

The Ritter team reanalysis instead compared the racial enrollment of charter schools to that of central - city schools, describing it as «the best available unit of comparison,» and argued that the geographic concentration of charter schools in urban areas merits a comparison of schools located only within urban districts.

«This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out... «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.

Whether the proliferation of charter schools in urban areas is fueling the demise of inner - city Roman Catholic schools is not a new question.

This research shows that charter schools in the urban areas of Massachusetts have large, positive effects on educational outcomes.

«The fact is that districts are more likely to scale improvement and provide sustainability than charter schools in urban areas.