Sentences with phrase «higher than other public schools»

A new report from the UCLA Civil Rights Project criticizes charter schools for using overly harsh discipline practices at rates higher than other public schools.

Not exact matches

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

And according to Harvard Public School of Health, risk of dying of those diseases is higher with excess red meat than other lean protein such as poultry and fish.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Faculty compensation in college, unlike public high school, is also influenced by market demand for those faculty members, so people in some fields are paid significantly more than others and outside offers are sometimes matched.

But even within public school districts, some schools have much higher turnover rates than others.

Consequently, charters proudly enroll higher percentages of black and Hispanic children than other public schools, and a growing body of research underscores their success.

Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

The study found that deeper learning public high schools graduate students with better test scores and on - time graduation rates nine percent higher than other schools, a win for teachers and students alike.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

No matter what grade levels are served, a higher proportion of charter schools is smaller than other public schools.

The sometimes - D schools experienced year - to - year changes in FCAT math scores that were only 2.4 points higher than all other Florida public schools, significantly less than the gains in both voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools.

The authors admit that per - pupil funding in the two charter schools was higher than in other Chicago public schools.

The middle schools in which ELL test - takers are concentrated have, on average, significantly higher student - to - teacher ratios than other public schools in the state.

All public elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high schools, and high schools, other than charter schools, in existence on September 1, 2002 shall be deemed registered by the Board of Regents pursuant to this subdivision as of such date.

In other words, high - quality pre-K is a much more powerful political issue than public charter schools.

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

In other words, the identification rate in the public schools appears to be 60 percent higher (the 5.5 percent increment divided by 9.1 percent) than in the private schools.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.

While the upcoming round of closures has provoked the usual complaints, the reality is that many students already opt for something other than their neighborhood public school — and charter enrollment is highest in some of the city's neediest neighborhoods.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.»

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Charter schools are already held to higher standards than other public schools in many respects.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

Under ESSA, the West Virginia Dept. of Education proposed «making out - of - school suspensions, other than those resulting from the highest level of student offenses, count against public schools» attendance rates.»

As enrollments have increased, a higher proportion of public school students are deciding to attend a school other than their in - boundary school.

PESAs divert funds from traditional, inclusive public schools and have higher administrative costs than other voucher programs.

Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 4 - 7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

In 2016 North Carolina's spending on students continues to rank toward the bottom in the nation and as resegregation reemerges in our public schools, it is clear that there are districts and buildings that are better resourced to offer high quality education than others.

It also confirms what we've long known: student achievement at high - poverty schools is lower than at other public schools.

But I would be silly to think that my own cultural capital, through my connections and people I work with and for had made it possible for me to explore options other than the public schools of New Orleans and allow my daughter a chance at her inalienable right to a high quality school and social capital.

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

Rotberg cites studies showing, «In some communities, charter schools have a higher concentration of minority students than traditional public schools,» while «In others, charter schools serve as a vehicle for «white flight.»

Earlier this month, state Superintendent of Education John White trumpeted the fact that Louisiana public high school students showed greater gains this year in earning college credit than those in any other state except Massachusetts.

Others say they look for homes outside of Cambridge in places like Brookline or Belmont to put their children in those public school districts, which rank higher than the Massachusetts state average on metrics such as college readiness, math proficiency, and English proficiency.

A report from the National High School Center at AIR and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their educatHigh School Center at AIR and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their educSchool Center at AIR and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their educSchool Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their educathigh school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their educschool graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their education.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

According to Brooke records, 98 percent go on to graduate from high school, a rate substantially higher than in other public schools.

Despite the painfully bad educational outcomes in many public schools in ghettos across the country, there are also cases where charter schools in the very same ghettos turn out students whose test scores are not only far higher than those in other ghetto schools, but sometimes are comparable to the test scores in schools in upscale suburban communities, where children come from intact families with highly educated parents.

Despite the lower percentages of these and other types of special needs students, Capital Prep's performance scores do not reflect corresponding higher achievement; the school, in fact, has a lower performance index score than Hartford Public Schools has for precisely the population that Capital Prep claims to have achieved great success with.

Particularly grating to Moskowitz was the fact that PBS refused to retract Merrow's statement that Success» student attrition rate was higher than that of other public charter and traditional public schools.

Michigan's charter high schools are making faster progress toward meeting state standards than other public high schools, though they still trail far behind.

Michigan's charter high schools are making faster progress toward meeting state standards than other public high schools.