It offers a longer school calendar and more instructional time during
the day than traditional public schools.
Not exact matches
Success Academy also released a fact sheet in response to the criticism, arguing that its
schools already offer significantly more instructional time
than traditional public schools thanks to longer
schools days and a longer
school year.
In many cases, this means a longer
school day and a longer
school year
than those found in a
traditional public -
school setting.
It finds that teachers in
traditional public schools are three times as likely to be «chronically absent» from
school as charter teachers, meaning they are absent more
than ten
days per year.
The five Massachusetts charter
schools studied by Merseth et al. (2009), four of which appear in our study, have a longer
school day and year
than traditional public schools.
A total of 34.6 percent of teachers in North Carolina's
traditional public schools missed more
than 10
days of work because of sick
days or personal
days, compared to 12.8 percent of teachers in the state's charter
schools.
(a slightly longer
school day than most
traditional public schools)
Students at Extera receive more instruction
than students in
traditional public schools, with an extended
school day and three additional weeks of
school each year.
A 2015 study on urban charter
schools by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that D.C. charter students are learning the equivalent of 96 more
days in math and 70 more
days in reading
than their peers in
traditional public schools.
Our students are also in
school for more
days throughout the year
than traditional district
public schools.
His new attacks on
public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of
traditional public schools, which will curtail extended
day and summer programs in needy
school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less
than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.
The most careful, comprehensive study of virtual charter
schools, from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that virtual charter students achieved the equivalent of 180 fewer
days of learning in math and 72 fewer
days of learning in reading
than students in
traditional public schools.