Sentences with phrase «from different charter schools»

I haven't had much experience with other charter schools in New Orleans, but since I've started attending Bard Early College, a half day program that allows high school juniors and seniors to take college - level courses, I have been around kids who come from different charter schools.

Not exact matches

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Charter schools have said they are suffering from a teacher shortage and need different rules to recruit teachers.

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.

Research that painstakingly tries to separate out the actual effects of schools clearly has value, but it is important to bear in mind that, in the absence of random assignment of students to schools (such as occurs via charter school lotteries), families that choose for their children to be educated in their home (through virtual schools) are likely to be very different from other families.

We wanted to know, for instance, how Minnesota, the state that passed the nation's first charter school law in 1991, is different from Maryland, which passed the most recent enabling legislation in 2003.

Such students make different choices not because of unmeasured characteristics, but because of a factor out of their control: the distance from home to the nearest charter school.

Public school teachers who teach in their areas of certification earn a substantial wage premium, 9 percent, compared with a premium that is not meaningfully different from zero for charter teachers and a 2 percent premium for private school teachers.

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.

We can not confidently extrapolate the results to very different charter schools, students from very different backgrounds, or students who enter in atypical grades.

Blackstone is an ideal school for answering a key question: do charters that serve a socioeconomic mix of students look and feel different from charters that target only low - income students?

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

Of the many arguments for charter schools, one is crucial: that charters should be deliberately, thoughtfully, boldly different from existing mainline public middle and high schools.

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.

More charter schools might allow for more innovation — including longer school days and different styles of teaching — because charters are exempt from many regulations.

That finding corroborates the disappointing results from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) 2015 analysis of virtual charter schools nationwide, which used a slightly different analytical approach.

But it's impossible to look at the best charter networks up close and not see that their DNA is dramatically different from that of a traditional school system.

Are charter schools similar to or different from other public schools, and in what ways?

They explain that the challenges for researchers are that the school effect must be disaggregated from family background, and that their methods must account for «selection bias» — the likelihood that children whose parents choose a charter school are already different from those whose parents do not.

Another factor that likely explains Florida's different scenario is the repeated claim by state education leaders, newspapers, and some members of the public that many charter schools in the state are engaged in profiteering and private enrichment, with support from powerful political allies in the state legislature and governor's office.

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.»

These schools appear in smaller clusters or stand alone as different from most charter 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.

The idea — professional development summits organized in different parts of Nigeria and taught by experienced teachers from around the world — stemmed from Enechi's own experience as a new teacher at Brooke Charter School in the Mattapan section of Boston, where new teachers prepare for their own classrooms by spending one year learning from experienced educators.

The approach to opening and closing charter schools is quite different from traditional public schools.

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).

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What makes a charter school different from other public schools?

But by 1993, he said charters are no different from vouchers, because they both open the door to corporations coming in and running public schools.

The school lotteries, which are required under the state's charter law when a school is over capacity, provide a way to answer the common complaint that the charter school applicants are «different» from their peers in the traditional public schools.

The fight over The Project School cuts to the heart of what makes charter schools different and once again highlights an instance in which reconciling two prevailing values of the state's current education policy regime is far from simple.

In addition to our Q&A with Checker, three seniors from different public charter schools shared what makes their schools special to them, and how they have helped them prepare for their futures.

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: through local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers and through the new statewide commission.

The charter movement started with education entrepreneurs who desired to start public schools that were innovative and independent, different from traditional public schools.

It also demonstrates how charter schools across Indiana are different from traditional public schools.

But even some of the most strenuous charter advocates are wary of a blanket assumption that charters are superior, in part because they are so different from traditional schools and from one another.

«We anticipate that we'll be given the opportunity to remain a school until we can apply for a charter from a different authorizer,» Daniel Baron, the school's board president, told StateImpact in an interview Tuesday.

Unions may say they support charter schools, but they only support charters after they have stripped them of everything that makes charters different from district schools.

Charter schools will be authorized through two different paths in Washington: local school boards that get permission from the State Board of Education to be authorizers, and through the new statewide commission.

Jim Spady said Saturday that charters are a way to give educators the freedom to create a school of their dreams, and parents the freedom to choose a school model that's different from what their local school district offers.

«WUSD would also run the risk of teachers with seniority wanting to be placed at the charter, again taking away from the potential of the district - dependent charter being different from the non-charters and also potentially detracting from the main school sites.

Explorations, one of Connecticut's first public charter schools, serves 90 students in grades 9 - 12 who hail from 12 different towns.

Not only do we pay for our rent using the per - pupil funding we receive from the state, but the consequences of continued low test scores have a completely different meaning for charter schools.

This is fundamentally different from many other charter schools I've visited that are often staffed by smart, passionate but inexperienced former Teach for America members.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Mr. Cuomo has made it clear that his thoughts are quite different from those of Mr. de Blasio, saying in the past that the charter school movement was «healthy for education writ large.»

Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small schools around the country - from an entrepreneur's high - tech charter school in San Diego to a school formed out the of the breakup of a huge public high school in Manhattan.

Charter schools are breaking out of the box and helping more students graduate from high school by offering a variety of school models that appeal to different students» (and parents») needs.

FCPCS is governed by a diverse board of Florida charter school operators from different regions of the state and different types of charter schools.

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.