Sentences with phrase «competition from charter schools»

If the efforts are successful, then the quality of traditional public schools will increase relative to what it would have been in the absence of competition from charter schools.

Is there a connection between these improvements in test - performance scores and growing competition from charter schools?

Whether competition from charter schools can eventually spur academic improvements in traditional public schools also depends on the academic performance of the charter schools themselves.

Our results should therefore be interpreted as the effect of the introduction of additional competition from charter schools.

And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

Moreover, there's research showing that competition from charter schools helps improve — or at least does not harm — academic performance in traditional public schools.

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

That pits him against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter schools.

To estimate the effects of charter schools on students in traditional public schools, we use information on each school's distance from the nearest charter school to develop indicators of whether or not the traditional school faces competition from charter schools.

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.

And despite intense competition from charter schools, its enrollment is up 32 percent since Bethel's arrival, to 520 students.

And, though the district won't admit the connection, Carroll believes that the recent overall rise in district elementary - and middle - school test scores is the result of «competition from charter schools [which] has forced an increased district focus on measurable outcomes.»

Enrollment in the New York City schools, the largest district in the country, was flat from 2005 to 2010, but both Chicago and Los Angeles lost students, with declining birthrates and competition from charter schools cited as among the reasons.

The downward trend in test - score results in D.C. calls into question whether prior outcomes still reflect the current reality, given increased competition from charter schools.

Since 2010, the school system has cut its budget annually because of a mix of tight state funding, a variety of expenses and growing competition from charter schools that have drawn money and students from the parish system.

The AFT's strategy of selective reporting also colors its approach to the question of whether competition from charter schools has forced changes in district schools.

Read alongside the results of studies based on student - level data, they suggest that even a little bit of competition from charter schools can force schools to appear to be improving, but that policymakers need to take care to ensure that translates into real gains for the average student.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

In telling the Daily News editorial board he hoped to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools, the Democratic governor laid out a second - term education agenda in sync with charter school advocates — including several deep - pocketed hedge fund managers — who have donated millions to his campaign and to Republicans trying to keep their majority in the Senate.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, who formerly led New York City's teachers union, told Capital last week that NYSUT would vigorously fight what Cuomo has laid out as his second - term education agenda: teacher evaluations that place more emphasis on student performance and increased competition from charter schools.

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

In the interview with the News, Cuomo said he intends to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

Diminishing state and federal funding, dramatic demographic changes, and competition from charter schools are driving most districts» plans to close schools, despite the...

It was, according to the paper's summary, an «article on school - choice movement; competition from charter schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.»

However, in response to competition from charter schools, «Now they're talking about math.

People and Results Bishop Ronnie Crudup, pastor of the New Horizon Church in Jackson, adheres to the belief that competition from charter schools would make traditional schools step up their education game.

School board members are worried about increased competition from charter schools, which are projected to enroll about 24,000 of the county's 185,000 public school students next year.

District schools can hold their own - or better yet, improve - if district leaders make smart changes in response to competition from charter schools, writes Paul Hill.