Sentences with phrase «district public school peers»

Not exact matches

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

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A recent Stanford study (PDF) found that public charters in Washington, D.C. and New York substantially outperformed similar district schools, while public charters in Nevada and Texas lagged far behind their district peers.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

Public charter school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in public operating support than their peers in traditional district scPublic charter school students already receive nearly $ 4,000 less per child in public operating support than their peers in traditional district scpublic operating support than their peers in traditional district schools.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

In fact, public charter school students currently receive nearly $ 4,000 less on average than their peers in traditional district schools.

School principals in the Seattle Public Schools district are discovering the power of peer collaboration.

In Connecticut, our data show that charter students receive nearly $ 4,000 less per student in public operating funding, compared to their peers in district schools.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

The results show significant gains over the last eight years, with public charter students outperforming their district and private school peers in every grade level and on every subject tested.

Prior to his work with Peer Coaching, Foltos served as the Director of Instructional Technology for Seattle Public Schools from 1990 to 2001 where he led the implementation of the District's efforts to integrate technology into more than 3,000 teachers» classroom.

the typical student in a New York City public charter school gains more learning in a year than his or her peer in a district public school, amounting to about one more month of learning in reading and five more months of learning in math.

The results for the typical student in a Harlem public charter school — approximately 25 percent of the city's charter students — were even more pronounced in math, on average gaining seven more months than his or her peer in a district public school, but less than a full additional month in reading.

In fact, the most recent Texas Academic Performance Report Data indicates these underserved subgroups are outperforming their peers at school districts in reading, writing, and math, demonstrating that public charter schools are working.

Specifically, students enrolled in charters in the state - run district made learning gains, on average, almost twice those of their peers in conventional public schools.

Chicago public school teachers are also well - compensated compared to their peers in other districts.

Those at higher - performing charter schools deemed themselves less conscientious, less self - controlled and less gritty than lower - achieving peers at district public schools.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

In Chicago, charter public school students grow more academically, graduate high school, enroll in college, and persist in college at higher rates than their peers at district - run open enrollment schools.

Districts such as D.C. Public Schools and Denver Public Schools have gone so far as to formally engage peers in the teacher evaluation process.

Charter school teachers in the 678,000 - student Los Angeles school district are up to three times more likely to leave their school at year's end compared to their peers in traditional public schools, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley.

The National Center for Education Statistics offers a searchable resource called the Public School District Finance Peer Search.

First, charter school students are public school students who deserve the same access to quality facilities as their district school peers.

Our children are worth just as much as their public district school peers, not less.»

By the end of elementary school, the large initial achievement gap between children in public housing who attended the district's most advantaged schools and their non-poor peers in the district was cut by half for math and one - third for reading.

Or, as they say, «when compared to their peers in traditional public schools in our same communities» they have done much better and deserve more of the money that was meant for the urban district schools.