Sentences with phrase «from nearby charter schools»

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In Hempstead, while most of the students at The Academy Charter School are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems asSchool are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems asschool draws from nearby systems as well.

Not far from the heart of Houston, unlikely alliance between a school district and nearby charter schools is bringing the best of both worlds to area students.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

Even when charter schools use simple applications, the fact that parents must submit them months before the start of school means that «these students are in some ways more advantaged, come from more motivated families» than kids in nearby district schools, education analyst Michael Petrilli said.

The opening of a charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at nearby district schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.

To shed light on the question of spillover effects, I use data from New York City to estimate the effects of charter schools on students in two types of nearby district schools: those in the same neighborhood, and those that are co-located (in the same building).

The problem, she said in a separate analysis, is that Ms. Raymond compared the achievement of individual charter students with that of groups of students from nearby public schools, without making the statistical adjustments necessary to account for the natural downward biases that result from that sort of calculation.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

The rally, which is being hosted by California Charter Schools Association Families, will include a march from Vaughn Next Century Learning Center at 9:30 a.m. to nearby Vaughn G3 (Green Global Generation) before a public program that will feature speeches from LA Unified school board member Monica Ratliff and Congressman Tony Cardenas.

Most are outperforming nearby district schools, but the majority of the denials stem from charters» rejection of specific language required by the district in their petitions.

«I feel like is a family, we're all as one,» said High Tech freshman Raven Wright, who came to the district - run school from a larger nearby charter school.

Among those who enrolled in the spring — some just weeks before the school year ended — were a 17 - year - old from Guatemala returning to classes for the first time since he was in sixth grade, a ninth - grader who left a nearby charter school after she was caught with marijuana, and an 18 - year - old who dropped out of Southeast Washington's Ballou High earlier in the year after moving into a group foster home in Northwest Washington.

«Cherokee Charter Academy is a unique school that reignited my daughter's passion for learning after she transferred from a nearby traditional school.

The principal at my nearby charter school makes over $ 300,000 per year, a 246 percent increase from her salary before the school was chartered.

Now the DC Public Charter School Board has mapped the geographic distribution of students at every charter campus in DC, revealing which schools attract students who live nearby and which draw them from alCharter School Board has mapped the geographic distribution of students at every charter campus in DC, revealing which schools attract students who live nearby and which draw them from alcharter campus in DC, revealing which schools attract students who live nearby and which draw them from all over.

Shirley Oesch, principal of Valley Oaks Charter School under the Kern County Supt. of Schools office, took in 70 students from a nearby closed California Charter Academy campus that served 300 students.