Sentences with phrase «half went to charter schools»

My children did their pre-years in a Montessori... and they'll go to a charter school next year.

«When the students from the city go to charter schools, all of their money goes with them,» Root said.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

The study was designed as a gold - standard randomized field trial, in which students were (by means of a lottery) randomly given the opportunity to go to charter schools or not.

School districts understandably can be loath to see their pupils — and, more important, the state funding that follows them — go to charter schools.

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

When the kids go to charter schools and charter schools take the same kids, they get the same results.

Bragging rights go to charter schools or programs that have the highest - octane mix of poor and minority kids.

This year 33 percent of the budget goes to charter schools, the group states in its brief.

«A disproportionate share of money per student is going to charter schools, and, as the state economy struggles, there's a lot of attention being paid to that,» he said.

You have to have the parents of this district who are going to charter schools feel comfortable about coming here,» he said.

Of the black students, half went to charter schools, Among whites, 29 percent chose charters...»

Researchers at the UCLA group say that a typical black student goes to a charter schools where three out of four students are black.

A huge chunk of money — $ 727 million — goes to charter schools, which compete with traditional public schools for resources in Philadelphia.

I am not in any way in favor of charters, particularly for - profit charter chains, but I really do not want to see larger numbers of special needs students going to charter schools.

Andrew, Don't forget that kids going to a Charter School is by choice unlike the public schools.

I didn't want to go to a charter school because I thought they were creaming off top students and I do believe that children have the right to go to high - performing schools with high - quality instruction right in their own neighborhood.

The New Hope - Solebury School District, for example, pays nearly $ 19,000 for every general education district student that elects to go to a charter school and almost $ 40,000 for every special education student.

As a result of their «education reform» initiatives, well over $ 100 million in taxpayer funds will go to charter schools rather than the state's local public school system.

«Every dollar that goes to these charter schools or through the voucher programs is going to be a spreading from the public schools.»

Of the 340 teachers teaching in Los Angeles this year, about 90 percent are going to charter schools, according to Lida Jennings, the Interim Executive Director for Teach For America Los Angeles.

Seven states have resisted the urge to go to charter schools.

-LRB-...) That's how proponents of more accountability for taxpayer money going to charter schools think the system should work.

We're saying that the fact they went to charter schools shouldn't be a denial of those funds to them,» said Susan Dwyer, lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

«We have Florida taxpayer dollars going to these charter schools.

Then again, as I'm sure you know, money also goes to charter schools, including AF.

He noted that a lengthy Detroit Free Press investigation published recently found little accountability for the $ 1 billion per year going to charter schools and largely equal performance compared to traditional schools.

«She had a chance to go to a charter school, but I wanted her to go to the local school, maybe I made a mistake.

In Massachusetts, the money follows the student; when a student chooses to go to a charter school, the per - pupil funding goes along with him or her.

They claimed that poor school districts have low student outcomes, so if a child chooses to go to a charter school they claim has better outcomes, that charter school has the right to equal funding.

In total, 475 students, or 82 percent of the students who left for charter schools last year, went to Charter School of San Diego, Audeo and Laurel Prep Academy — sister schools operated by the same nonprofit, Altus Schools.

Out of a total budget of $ 118 million for 15,000 students, the Lynn KIPP charter school takes $ 8 million a year for 800 students, a difference of over $ 2,000 per pupil going to charter schools compared with district schools.

Today, about 33 percent of students who attend Newark schools — or roughly 17,000 students — go to charter schools.

«It's supposed to give people going to the charter school a leg up on the people going to the public school.

Superintendents like Mr. Ricci and some school board members lament that traditional districts have fixed costs that they must meet even with the loss of funds going to charter schools.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said in a recent report that nearly 2.9 million, or more than 6 percent of students, now go to charter schools.

Winners and losers can be assumed to be equally motivated because they both tried to go to a charter school.

If a student chooses to go to a charter school, the money is allocated to the charter school to educate that student.

«Talk is cheap, and you can postulate all you want, but the reality is that those of us who have seen millions go to charter schools and program cuts in our Buffalo schools know the reality,» said Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Around one - fourth of upper secondary students in Sweden go to a charter school.

Of that amount $ 2.3 million went to charter schools that failed (about 10 percent of funds).

This proposal is often pushed under the guise of equity but really is a mechanism to facilitate funding intended for district schools to go to charter schools.

Not exact matches

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

When he purchased space on the charter flight he told school officials he was going to Salt Lake to sell his house and «your charter is $ 11 less than the regular fare.»

At our old charter school we would be going back to school this week!

J.O. then finds one LAUSD school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a public charter school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the school kitchen and instead is assigned to work with a group of culinary students.

«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

It's unlikely the president is going to heed this call, no matter how big a premium his administration has put on charter schools.

As charter school proponents go to Albany this week to plead their case, let's examine the realities behind their claims of stretched resources, unique student demand and stellar academic results.

The Assembly proposal would end supplemental charter tuition so that going forward, districts would no longer be required to make this payment to charter schools and the State would no longer be required to reimburse districts for such payment.