This whole
district public school vs. charter public school — I don't think parents think of it that way.
The 9 percentage point spread (36 percent New York City
district public schools vs. 45 percent charters) narrows to 7 (43 percent vs. 50 percent) when special education students are excluded.
Not exact matches
District vs. charter schools: Newark is notorious for its public battles between district and charter schools, especially since superintendent Cami Anderson has sought to share space between
District vs. charter
schools: Newark is notorious for its
public battles between
district and charter schools, especially since superintendent Cami Anderson has sought to share space between
district and charter
schools, especially since superintendent Cami Anderson has sought to share space between the two.
Specifically, the data book reports that two
public charter
schools in Eastern Idaho serve a significantly lower number of Hispanic students than their
district counterparts (24 % in
public charter
vs. 51 % in the Jerome Joint SD, for example).
And once again, we're back to stoking the «charter
vs. public» debate as all one or the other; that is, whatever is good for charters must be bad for the
school districts in which they are located.
When you then pull out the data for English language learners (New York City
district public schools have more than three times as many), the New York City
district public school test performance becomes stronger, and surpasses the proficiency rate for charter
schools — 50 percent
vs. 46 percent.
Last month, Denver
District Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in the case of Lobato
vs. State of Colorado that Colorado's current
public school finance system fails to meet state constitutional requirements to maintain a thorough and uniform
public school system.