Sentences with phrase «compare public schools in your neighborhood»

Not exact matches

The researchers compared two groups of high school students from low - income neighborhoods in Los Angeles — 521 students who were offered admission to high - performing public charter schools through the district lottery, and 409 who were not.

We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).

«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»

Using detailed student - level data to compare what sorts of students enter KIPP as compared to public schools in the neighborhood, and what kinds of students replace those who leave, authors find, on average, that KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

The Education Evaluator is an easy transparent way to find and compare public schools - district and charter - in your neighborhood.

The findings highlight schools that enroll a higher or lower proportion of in - boundary students compared to schools in neighborhoods with similar characteristics, and identifies neighborhood characteristics of areas where families are most likely to send their children to public charter schools.

Perhaps because of the lack of adequate public and private school options in their neighborhoods relative to the neighborhoods in which higher - income families live, only 38 percent of lower - income parents would seek information about the convenience of the possible private schools as compared with 57.4 percent of higher - income parents.

Impoverished urban neighborhoods also have limited funding for public services such as schools, and thus the educational opportunities in these locations are often subpar compared to wealthier suburbs (Darling - Hammond, 2009).