Sentences with phrase «compare whether charter»

You might think this is a relatively easy proposition to evaluate — just compare whether charter school kids do better on tests than those in public schools.

Not exact matches

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

Unlike a badly designed charter school study recently released by Mathematica, which compared students who changed schools with those who did not, MDRC studied only students who moved to a new school regardless of whether they attended a small one or went elsewhere.

Ritter continues, «Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the levels of segregation for the students in charter schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned public schools.»

As the evidence on school choice continues to grow, it is tempting to compare the results achieved by school voucher programs to those of charter schools — to ask whether one option or the other represents a more promising avenue for expanding educational opportunity.

Simply comparing performance based on whether a student's district school is or is not located within one mile of a charter school could be misleading given differences in where charter schools are located.

Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) and Angrist, Pathak, and Walters (2013) found similar estimates of the impact of a year in a Boston area charter school whether they compared charter school admission lottery winners and losers or whether they compared charter attendees to regular public school students with similar observed characteristics.

So, our project looked at how well all of the schools in a city — whether they are district - or charter - governed — are serving their city's children and how a city's schools compare to those in other cities.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they....

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

In this post, Burris looks at whether charter schools can properly be compared with district public schools — as they often are.

The full data set is more than just comparing whether magnets or charter schools are «better.»

The studies come amid a growing debate over the question of whether charter schools are inadequately funded compared with traditional public schools, and if / how they improve student achievement better than the traditional schools.

The study compared charters in Louisiana, the majority of which are in New Orleans, to Louisiana public schools, controlling for factors like race, ethnicity, poverty and whether students qualified for special education.

If comparing all charter schools to all district schools is «like asking whether eating out is better than eating at home,» 71 then concentrating resources into the propagation of nonunionized, segregated charter schools is like going to a buffet and only eating the dinner rolls.

As Kelley notes in his legal review, charter operators often argue that all that matters is whether charter school students do well on standardized tests and that parents are generally satisfied with the schools» performance compared to public schools.

In the 2016 - 17 school year, charter schools receive substantially less per pupil regardless of whether it operates in public or private space; the IBO estimates that charters are underfunded compared to traditional district schools by $ 1,145 to $ 4,863 per pupil.

One may already stop here to wonder whether the EFTA Court is not making its life too easy speaking of an interpretation of EEA law «in the light» of fundamental rights in the present case; a more thorough reasoning would have had to grapple with the scope of EEA law in the case: Only if Iceland was acting effectively within the scope of EEA law here the fundamental rights standards of EEA law apply under the EFTA Court's supervision; otherwise one could argue that the Supreme Court of Iceland's action ought to be judged against the benchmark of domestic fundamental rights and ECHR standards (compare the rich debate on the parallel problem in EU law which focuses on Article 51 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights).

The Legal Battle Over The World's Oldest Profession Compared to Kyle Freeman, Terri - Jean Bedford faces no threshold questions about whether the Charter applies to her case.