Sentences with phrase «fewer students in public schools»

Overall, the state has experienced 12 consecutive years of having fewer students in public schools.

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Private school students, teachers and administrators all report fewer racial problems than in public schools.

In fact, she says that they are required to select from a lottery system and actually bounce fewer students from school than ordinary public schools.

Taxpayer - funded charter schools should not have the right to choose to educate fewer high - needs students than public schools and then point to how successful they are in comparison.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

As just one example, interviewing students in a San Francisco Bay Area high school a few years ago I was repeatedly told about a known student drug dealer who administrators were hurriedly trying to help graduate rather than risk exposing the school to a public scandal.

On a leap of faith, Allen put in an application to send her younger son to one of the few other public school alternatives in the city: a new district school for gifted students.

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

Our school is unique in Philadelphia in that it's one of the few public schools with a 1:1 program that allows students to take devices home.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

(A few years later, using survey data from the second round of «High School and Beyond,» the team showed that students in private schools had greater learning gains between their sophomore and senior years than did students in public schools.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

For example, she says that there are so few private placements of special education students «not... because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

This remains a drop in the public school bucket (nationally there were more than 94,000 public K — 12 schools and more than 49 million students in 2007), which is why «market share» is considered a crucial milestone, one of the few ways to pinch traditional schools in their pocketbooks.

About half of the public school students in the U.S. attend schools in districts that have fewer than 10,000 students.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

There are teachers and a brutal amount of schools that we could fit under the umbrella of innovation and then there are centers with very few resources, especially in the case public education; these have to be invented and renewed only from the good intention of the teachers for their students.

A few years ago my colleagues published a report that tracked every student in the Chicago Public Schools from 9th grade, through college.

As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.

But like Williams, she credited her family's decision to enroll her in a Catholic school, as one of a few Jewish students, with setting her on her life's course, from Stanford University into public life and to the U.S. Senate.

At the time, the few disabled students mainstreamed in public schools — no matter what their disability, physical or learning — were usually nudged toward manual work like bead stringing or weaving, not academics.

Meanwhile, also on Monday, studies of two existing voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana were released showing that after an initial backslide, students receiving vouchers make up ground and perform roughly as well as their public school peers after a few years.

Specific actions, such as public school choice and supplemental educational services for students in schools identified for accountability consequences, become optional in waiver states, and few waiver states continue to require these specific interventions.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

Fordham called for requiring all participating students to take state assessments; mandating public disclosure of those results, school by school, except for schools that enroll fewer than ten total students in tested grades; and requiring schools that enroll a substantial number of students to have their eligibility determined by how their students perform on state tests.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progresIn public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progresin paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progresin order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

Idaho is one of the few states in the country that breaks out NAEP achievement data for students in public charter schools.

They started 20 years ago with a few dozen fifth - graders in Houston; today KIPP is a nationwide network of public schools with more than 58,000 students.

This year, there are 6,700 public charter schools enrolling over 2.5 million students across the country in 43 states, and parents» rights to choose myriad alternatives are in effect in all but a few.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

Thus, the CRP analysis on Table 22 includes traditional public schools in small cities such as Appleton, WI, Ithaca, NY, and Round Rock, TX, which do not have charter schools and have very few minority students.

It is no coincidence then that research has shown students who spend their full K — 12 education career in public schools in states that require collective bargaining with teachers unions earn less money, work fewer hours, are more likely to be unemployed, and are more likely to be employed in lower - skilled jobs than are their peers in states without collective bargaining laws.

The study, just completed, compared test scores of 46,000 charter school [fourth - grade] students in 20 states and the District — almost every student attending the special schools with fewer restrictions than traditional public schools.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

-- Why have millionaires favored funding with their largesse charter schools for the few while disinterested in regular public schools educating most students?

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

Few of the nation's 15,000 public school districts systematically question students about their classroom experiences, in contrast to American colleges, many of which collect annual student evaluations to improve instruction, Dr. Ferguson said.

Among a few Democrats in the Legislature who agree with the need to try charter schools is state Rep. Eric Pettigrew of Seattle, who has said this year's emerging ballot measure «will finally bring Washington into the 21st century in terms of educational opportunities for public school students.»

He also noted that spending money on failed schools hasn't been limited to voucher schools: Last year, for example, taxpayers spent about $ 361 million operating 52 low - performing public schools in Milwaukee in which 10 percent or fewer of the students were considered proficient on state tests.

One of the few large - scale national studies of magnet schools found that magnet schools were more effective than traditional public schools, Catholic schools, and secular private schools at raising student achievement in reading and social studies.

States across the country are draining funds from public schools that educate the vast majority of our children and diverting it to a few students in private schools.

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Despite their significant academic and social - emotional needs, there are fewer than 450 seats in programs for over-age middle school students in the City's traditional public and charter schools.