Sentences with phrase «charter students took»

Our estimates, based on state data, are that 98 percent of charter students took the test, far above the 80 percent of district students who did.

Charter attendees post higher SAT scores, and more charter students take an AP exam.

Not exact matches

He added that the school also takes in new students midyear, which many charters do not.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Among its claims, the suit alleges that Success Academy discriminates and retaliates against students with disabilities by taking measures designed to influence them to leave the charter network.

We are not afraid of competition, it's charter schools that are afraid to take on the most challenging students, the tough cases that slow down learning for whole classes.

Moskowitz took heat from critics for nixing instruction at 22 Success Academy charter schools to send students to the rally.

The PTO is not only taking issue with Perry's charter school background, but also charged that he is «profiting off of public school funds,» and making «fraudulent claims» about addressing students» needs.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter advocacy group out of New York City, took umbrage with NYSUT's statement Tuesday, demanding it «immediately apologize» to the 120,000 charter school students across the state and their families for «calling them a distraction.»

Parents said the charter school, which is a public school, would take classroom space and resources away from non-charter students.

Without taking action, the state's charter schools — which now get $ 15,920 per student — would get $ 1,500 more per pupil.

Students from a local charter school recently took part in their first ever Twitter - based book club.

Robert Pondiscio took an in - depth look at the programs and some of the challenges they face in «No Excuses Kids Go to College: Will High - Flying Charters See Their Low - Income Students Graduate,» which appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Ed Next.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

The book profiles heroic charter school teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work weeks, their meetings in teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new data, and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

But the path to more success takes smart leadership — a vision for building portfolios of schools that serve students well in both district and charter schools.

«People are totally against the charter school taking students from city schools.»

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

In a new report, Smith explores policy initiatives that some states and cities have taken to make taxpayer - funded facilities available to serve all public school students, whether they are enrolled in traditional or charter public schools.

For Spring Branch, that means the charter students, whom they consider «their» kids as well, gain access to electives that charter students don't normally get — the opportunity to play in a band or orchestra, take art or choir.

Some want charters to take more special education students or to hold low - performing charter - school operators to account.

Mathematica, the firm that did the study, chose to study only those students who entered a charter middle school after having first taken a standardized test in a public school.

In Massachusetts, charter school students take with them the per - pupil net school spending (state and local) from their sending districts.

The two top priorities are drawing together staff from both sectors to deal with Common Core challenges and boosting the number of special education students taken by charters.

This prompted him to take education classes and start mentoring students in a nearby charter school in order to try to help.

A report from the Southern Regional Education Board recommends steps for policymakers to take in the interest of ensuring that charter schools in their states are being held accountable for improving student achievement.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

Each charter school «takes only 400 students, and there's a very long waiting list.»

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

Taking into account the higher rates of student turnover in charter schools reduces the magnitude of the estimated negative effect of charter schools by 29 percent in reading and by 30 percent in math.

Studies adopting this approach take the students interested in attending a charter school, use a lottery to assign them randomly either to the charter school or to a control group of students who would not have access to that school, and then compare the achievement of the students given access to the charter school with that of the students in the control group.

And fourth, it appears to be taking my colleague Heather Staker's advice to heart by working closely with its charter school boards and district partnerships to better align its outreach and enrollment to the students who are best suited for success in full - time virtual schools.

It has spurred several states to take steps to raise caps on charter schooling, revisit teacher pay, and strike ludicrous rules that prohibited states and districts from using student learning to evaluate or compensate teachers.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

However, it is also clear that the initial achievement hit these students take is not offset by gains in subsequent years, so that even this group, which is harmed least by attending a charter school, still has lower levels of achievement as a result of attending a charter school.

For another take, please see «The Key Is Innovation, Not Regulation,» by Robin J. Lake, or «Charters Should Be Expected to Serve All Kinds of Students,» by Gary Miron.

Those are the charters most likely to take and retain their students; those are the charters that step on their poverty - explains - all explanation for low - performing schools.

In a speech Thursday to the National Urban League in Washington, the president offered a rebuttal to such criticism, saying the steps the program encourages states to take, including lifting caps on charter schools and using student data to inform teacher evaluation, are the right ones.

«An objective of mine is teaching and having students experience public speaking [and] communication, and also convincing people and being able to take questions on the fly,» Merseth says, noting that a the end of the course, students should be able to state why their charter school is needed in a one to two minute pitch.

If these steps do not turn around the schools and improve student achievement in two years, Clinton's plan would require states to take additional corrective actions, such as permitting students to attend other public schools, or reconstituting the school by evaluating the staff and making any necessary staff changes, or closing the school and reopening it as a charter with an entirely new staff.

For example, the data revealed that bullying is the number one issue students want to take action on, 88 percent of teens view bullying as a problem, gender slightly alters student's perception of the problem, and charter schools fair slightly better in the bullying problems.

At Central Education Center, a new charter school south of this city, some students will have their pick of $ 35,000 - a-year jobs right after graduation because of the opportunities they have here to take postsecondary - level technical courses while finishing high school.

Students at the same Boston charter high schools that have boosted test scores are also more likely to take and pass Advanced Placement courses and to enroll in a four - year rather than a two - year college.

The announcement, which took place on the first day of National Charter Schools Week (May 1 - 5), highlighted DSST's academic outcomes, especially among low - income students and students of color.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

Students could attend district or charter schools during the elementary years but decide to take most high school courses online.

Unlike some charters that don't take in new students after the 3rd or 4th grade, Icahn schools accept a child off their waiting list whenever a seat opens up, through the beginning of 7th grade.