Sentences with phrase «different than the charter schools»

According to Mathis, achievement scores at traditional public schools aren't much different than the charter schools.

Not exact matches

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

The controversial proposal approved by the SUNY Charter Schools Committee is slightly different than an earlier one.

The controversial proposal approved Wednesday by the SUNY Charter Schools Committee is slightly different than an earlier one.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, standing shoulder to shoulder in Albany with thousands of parents and students who rallied in support of charter schools, vowed on Tuesday to defend the movement and offered a sharply different vision for their place in the educational system than Mayor Bill de Blasio's.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

The money can be used, they say, to enact needed education reforms — different reforms than Cuomo has proposed, which include state takeovers of chronically failing schools and an expansion of charter schools.

The influence of the regulations on public / charter schools may be different than on private / voucher schools, but the pattern here is noteworthy.

To exacerbate the issue, pre-k funding in California comes from a different funding stream than K — 12, so the state bureaucracy does not consider pre-K a part of the charter school, but a separate program.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

Because pre-K funding in California comes from a different funding stream than that of K — 12, the state bureaucracy does not consider pre-K a part of the charter school, but a separate program.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

Unlike my colleagues in Washington, D.C., I do not believe that charter schools should play by different rules than district schools.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

On the other hand, the observational estimates for charter schools that contribute to the lottery study are larger than the observational estimates for other charter schools (though the latter are still positive and significantly different from 0).

A case could be made for excluding this school anyway: HCA is a Horace Mann Charter school that operates under somewhat different rules than regular Massachusetts charters (known as Commonwealth charters) and pilots.

Together we conducted a major teacher survey, and I personally visited 28 charter campuses in Arizona run by 20 different operators and conducted in - person and phone interviews with more than 200 policymakers, district school officials, and charter school teachers, operators, students, and parents between November 1997 and May 2001.

At charter schools, however, race matching appears unrelated to student discipline across all groups, suggesting that discipline dynamics may have been different in charters than in traditional public schools during the period we studied.

Charter schools have greater autonomy than traditional public schools when it comes to programming, and they can appeal to families of different income levels through innovation in curriculum, teaching, and learning methods.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Matt is correct when he writes that «charter schools serve different students than the district.

No matter the name or the office, the entity must have totally different powers and responsibilities than existing school boards — not to operate schools, but to use chartering, contracting, and memoranda of understanding in order to obtain the best possible mix of schools to meet the needs of local children.

State and federally driven mandates for curriculum, state testing, teacher certification, and fiscal management are no different for charter schools than they are for any other public school system.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, standing shoulder to shoulder in Albany with thousands of parents and students who rallied in support of charter schools, vowed on Tuesday to defend the movement and offered a sharply different vision for their place in the educational system than Mayor Bill de Blasio's.

They paint a very different picture of ALA than the one that has emerged from public meetings staged by the charter school operators or during the Roundup's recent tour of two ALA campuses in Queen Creek in the Valley.

Second grade teacher Jessica Moy said she feels more as part of a collaborative team at KIPP than she did previously at a private school and a different charter school.

The other 73 percent applied through a lottery to attend a school other than their in - boundary option, which breaks down across different options (aside from in - boundary) as follows: 46 percent of public school students attended a public charter school, 21 percent attended an out - of - boundary DCPS school, and the remaining 6 percent attended other DCPS schools [1](Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), 2017).

Charters» grade levels, programs and demographics are often different than public schools».

Unions may support charters, but unionized charters are stripped of just about everything that makes them different from — and generally better than — traditional public schools.

A slightly different approach would instead use different numbers for the charters than the public schools (44 % for the charters, whatever the relevant number is for the non-charter publics.)

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Advocates of low - income charter schools further suggest that disadvantaged students need a different set of pedagogical approaches than middle - class students.

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

More than 30 teachers that represented nine different systems or schools attended a STEM \ \ venture Day at the Fulton County charter school.

The NEA believes all charters should fall under the same rules as traditional public schools, which, in effect, would make them no different than traditional schools.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

Considering unions in the new charter school world is different than the older more national unions you may be accustomed to demonizing.

The borough has fewer than 2,500 charter school students spread across two schools — the John Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, located on the Teleport campus in Bloomfield, which offers classes from kindergarten through high school under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port Richarter school students spread across two schools — the John Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, located on the Teleport campus in Bloomfield, which offers classes from kindergarten through high school under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port Ricschool students spread across two schools — the John Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, located on the Teleport campus in Bloomfield, which offers classes from kindergarten through high school under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port RiCharter School, located on the Teleport campus in Bloomfield, which offers classes from kindergarten through high school under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port RicSchool, located on the Teleport campus in Bloomfield, which offers classes from kindergarten through high school under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port Ricschool under different umbrellas, and the New World Preparatory Charter School, a middle school in Port RiCharter School, a middle school in Port RicSchool, a middle school in Port Ricschool in Port Richmond.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Most district administrators have the mentality that charters are taking students, money and facilities from the districts and therefore fight charters rather than appreciate that they serve students that need a different environment from what is offered in traditional public schools.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

«What charter schools have done is dramatically expand the choices that consumers - our citizens - get to use so that there are all kinds of different types of schools - longer school days, more intensive language study, science and technology focus... we're giving our citizens more choice than they could ever have imagined 20 years ago.»

After charter school CEO Susan Mauser gave the board a presentation at Monday's curriculum committee meeting, board members questioned Mauser about the school, specifically: What makes the charter school different than the district's 22 schools?

At another point, Anderson specifically cited some of the district's highest - performing charter schools as clearly serving a different set of students than in some of her toughest schools, «where there are 35 percent of students with special needs.»

The fraud - prevention mechanisms work exactly the same for traditional public schools as for charters - neither the safeguards nor the outcomes are unique to charters - why charters are being singled out here belies a different motivation than more accurately representing the challenges of fraud prevention in the public school SECTOR.

HCZ Promise Academy students do perform better than students of their backgrounds attending a New York City public school but the charter school at the top of the list is a KIPP school [18] which calls into comparison two different models of education and their abilities to create achievement for historically marginalized groups.

This is particularly different from the demographics of most charter schools, which generally have more students of color than traditional public schools in the same area.

Many charter school teachers prefaced their comments today with «I taught at an LAUSD school for X years,» which goes to show that charter school teachers, leaders, and students are not of a different breed than our neighboring district school teachers, leaders, and students.