Sentences with phrase «comparable public schools»

We tracked voucher and comparable public school students up until the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

In the past few years, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed comparable public schools in nearly every area, while serving high percentages of minority students in urban areas.

Over the last several years, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed comparable public schools in nearly every area, while serving high percentages of minority students.

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.

4) Hunter has been accused of not providing any more value for its students than a demographically comparable public school would.

An excellent report from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Institute shows charter - school funding well below comparable public school funding.

The vouchers are worth up to $ 4,650 for pupils in grades K — 8 and up to $ 5,900 per high - school student; these amounts are typically less than half the per - pupil funding received by comparable public schools.

First, he uses a 2002 GAO study to say that students who receive vouchers fare no better than comparable public school students, even though a veritable mountain of evidence to the contrary has been published since then.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Reforms, which measures progress by matching students with those from comparable public schools, has found repeatedly that students in New Orleans charters are learning substantially more than they otherwise would have.

And the achievement of students receiving vouchers appears to be as high as or higher than that of students in comparable public schools.

• Too many charter schools are not consistently of «higher quality» than comparable public schools (recent findings in Chicago, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Florida, New Jersey, New York City, and New Mexico).

Only 17 percent of charters produced higher test scores than comparable public schools, while 37 percent «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their students would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

I'm sorry, but your statement that KIPP gets «hugely better» results than comparable public schools is absurd.

• Relentless charter school expansion even though charter schools regularly perform less well than comparable public schools.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, private school teachers on average earn $ 10,000 — $ 15,000 less than a comparable public school teacher.

The authors concluded that students in most charter schools perform about the same as students in comparable public schools (68).