Sentences with phrase «comparable public schools in»

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host districts.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Wanting to reach all eligible children, Congress required that remedial programs for those attending private schools be «comparable» in quality to public school programs.

In my view, the education market will work well only if the public has a wealth of accurate, comparable information about every school (or other education provider).

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

It's this sort of stark disparity that has propelled the UFT to fight for charter equity legislation in Albany that requires taxpayer - funded charters to accept and keep numbers of high - needs students comparable to those in district public schools.

African American and white men who live in racially integrated communities and who have comparable incomes have far fewer differences when it comes to behaviors that contribute to poor health — such as physical inactivity, smoking and drinking — compared to African American and white men overall in the U.S., according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

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.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas about his study finding that students in Milwaukee who received vouchers to attend private schools were 2 - 5 percentage points less likely to be accused or convicted of crimes than comparable students who attended public schools.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sSchools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schoolsschools.

The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter schools outperformed a comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in regular Chicago public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....

In order to make public schools more comparable to private ones, therefore, I exclude more than 90 percent of the public school teacher sample and retain public school teachers only in low - poverty (less than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) suburban schoolIn order to make public schools more comparable to private ones, therefore, I exclude more than 90 percent of the public school teacher sample and retain public school teachers only in low - poverty (less than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) suburban schoolin low - poverty (less than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) suburban schools.

At that point, public evaluations edged downward, with only about 44 % willing to give their local schools an A or a B in the PDK poll, comparable to the 43 % assigning schools one of these two grades in the EdNext poll of 2007.

Leaders of the new effort, «Project Appleseed,» hope to establish strong state - level Parents for Public Schools organizations comparable in stature to the state affiliates of the national teachers» unions and other groups.

SchoolGrades uses the results of state tests to create a comparable, A-F grading system for all public elementary and middle schools in the U.S.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

The lunch is entirely comparable to public school lunches in Boston, but costs a little more, about $ 2.75 a day on an annual basis.

After one year, the results show that students who used a scholarship to attend a private school scored 5.9 percentile points higher on the math section of the ITBS than comparable students who remained in public schools.

The decision, which the state plans to appeal, is likely, the experts say, to increase the use of the comparable - worth concept in job - evaluation schemes of private and public employers — including public - school systems — nationwide.

On average, U.S. teachers earn only about two - thirds of the salaries of other professions with comparable preparation, there is little room for advancement within the profession, and the working conditions in many public schools are challenging at best.

But a 1999 compromise approved by the California legislature required that charter school teachers earn a credential comparable to certificates held by public school teachers, in return for lifting the cap on charters across the state.

But do charters vary more in terms of their ability to promote student achievement than comparable traditional public schools?

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

a student with a disability as defined in section 200.1 (zz) of this Title, who transfers school districts within the same academic year, is provided with a free appropriate public education, including services comparable to those described in the previously held individualized education program (IEP) pursuant to section 200.4 (e)(8) of this Title.

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

These services and benefits must be 1) delivered in a timely way, and 2) comparable to the services and benefits the district provides to the children and teachers in its public schools.

The same study found that 61 percent of Arizona charter parents gave their schools an A + or an A. Comparable surveys of Arizona parents with children in traditional public schools found only 38 percent grading their schools A + or A.

• According to a study by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, Newark parents have access to a higher percentage of schools that «Beat the Odds» than in any comparable city in the country.

• 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).

ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in comparable regular public schools...

Good Morning A new study from Patrick J. Wolf at the University of Arkansas found that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program were likely to commit crimes than comparable students who attended Milwaukee public schools.

Parents and general public should be aware that public school closings in many cities are accompanied by the simultaneous expansion of charter schools and non-public options — schools which have become the darlings of corporate reform, but whose track records are often worse that those of comparable public schools.

But students who use vouchers or attend charter schools generally do no better academically than comparable students who remain in regular public schools.

To better understand the sizable impact of these policies, we compared parent contributions in Portland Public Schools with parent contributions to Seattle Public Schools, a district of comparable size and demographics that does not have an equity fund.

The United Federation of Teachers yesterday proposed state legislation that will require charter schools to accept and keep comparable numbers of high - needs students as traditional public schools or risk reductions in state funding, state renewals, expansions or new schools and — for repeated offenses — forfeiting their charters.

Unfortunately, though, the main premise of the equity argument has not been fulfilled — inner - city poor students attending private schools with vouchers in general show no greater gains in academic achievement than comparable students in public schools.

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

A 2015 study by MIT Department of Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research measuring the effectiveness of the Louisiana voucher program, finding students that participated in the program performed substantially worse than comparable students who stayed in public schools.

Combining district and charter public schools, during this period Newark's standing relative to comparable districts in the state leapt from the 33rd percentile to the 83rd percentile in math and from the 44th to the 81st in reading.

Atkinson would like to see a requirement that private schools and home schools receiving a tax credit administer EOGs and EOCs in the third grade and the eighth grade, so that students» academic performance would be comparable against students who are in public schools.

«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.

Graduation rates will also not be comparable because private schools receiving vouchers are not required to calculate graduation rates in the same manner as public schools.

In Sweden, public money has been available for independent schools (comparable to charter schools in the United States) since the early 1990In Sweden, public money has been available for independent schools (comparable to charter schools in the United States) since the early 1990in the United States) since the early 1990s.

First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.»

Overall, we conclude that LAUSD Alliance charter high schools provide better outcomes at lower costs than comparable LAUSD traditional operated public schools in the same area.

TEAM's student population is comparable to Newark Public Schools in both its demography and academic preparedness.

Conversely, transparency and accountability is something we don't have for our our nascent school voucher program, which is scheduled to shift up to $ 1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the next ten years to private schools that are not required to adhere to any curricular standards or assess students in a way that is comparable to public schools.