Sentences with phrase «if charter students»

You see educational equity as a zero - sum game, to wit: if charter students get something, district schools lose something; Until districts get every penny you think they deserve, charter students should get no increase.

The best question to ask when examining the fiscal drain from public schools to charters is what would public school districts save if charter students returned.

Their aim is to determine if charter students nationwide are more or less likely to attend school in such hypersegregated environments.

Not exact matches

Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing that day.

A charter school student must be able to participate in curricular activities if that is a requirement for an extracurricular activity.

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

But if groups of failing schools are eventually turned into charters, it could give the sector an opportunity to dispel the common criticism charters don't enroll sufficient numbers of high - needs students.

Some 220 students at Ark Community Charter School in Troy may be displaced if final court proceedings affirm a SUNY Trustees Charter Schools Committee decision that agreed with findings by SUNY's Charter Schools Institute that Ark failed to meet its academic goals.

F.E.S. claims that if the co-locations were reversed, 5,600 students could be displaced from charter schools this fall.

Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.

Jennifer Story, national deputy chair for CFS, said under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they are questioning whether the law is fair or if it discriminates against students.

Instead, if a charter school in New York receives more applicants than it has places, it must enroll students based on a random lottery.

In both cities, students with existing IEPs are significantly and substantially more likely to remain in their kindergarten school if it is a charter than if it is a district school.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that if the charter schools draw from their neighborhoods, they will draw students who are 90 to 95 percent black or Hispanic.

Unfortunately, the analyses in this paper are not capable of identifying whether the differences in classifications are due to the type of student who attends each sector, or if there is something about charter schooling itself that reduces the probability that a student is newly classified as having a disability.

However, if we do not control for school policies and look at the simple correlation between a charter school's years in operation and student achievement, we find that older schools have more positive achievement effects.

«If you look back over the past decade, I think charter schools have absorbed half of the growth in the number of students in Utah public schools.

These 4,000 transfer students would have ranked Scottsdale Unified as the ninth - largest charter school management organization in Arizona that year, if indeed it were a CMO.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

Overall, they remain bullish on charters, negative on teacher tenure, opposed to «agency fees» (whereby teachers are forced to pay the union to negotiate even if they decline to join the union themselves), and hostile to federal requirements that restrict schools» ability to suspend disruptive students.

If the apparent negative effects of attending a «no excuses» charter school on conscientiousness, self - control, and grit do in fact reflect reference bias, then what our data show is that these schools influence the standards to which students hold themselves when evaluating their own non-cognitive skills.

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

But, like private schools, charter schools are operated by nongovernmental entities, and students attend only if their family selects the school.

If the court claims that charters remove students from the «local control» of their district, how can a Washington student enrolled in a public school in Oregon be under the «local control» of its sending district?

If charters are doing terrific things for students, the coverage should tilt positive; if charters are providing lousy schooling, it should tilt negativIf charters are doing terrific things for students, the coverage should tilt positive; if charters are providing lousy schooling, it should tilt negativif charters are providing lousy schooling, it should tilt negative.

With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle - class families enters the lottery.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if they attend a traditional public school.

• If the majority of the 275,000 students enrolled in online charter schools are fleeing a bad situation, where would they go if their schools were closeIf the majority of the 275,000 students enrolled in online charter schools are fleeing a bad situation, where would they go if their schools were closeif their schools were closed?

That group (full disclosure — I am a member) has proposed giving incentives to states if they enact legislation that encourage community colleges, universities, charter schools, and other providers to offer virtual courses to high school and middle school students over the internet.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the

These «cyber» charters must now document their instructional minutes, and their per - pupil funding may be reduced if they offer less than the minimum number of student course minutes per year — a district - style regulation of the process of education without regard for outcomes.

For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.

Charter schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the quality of their own education prCharter schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the quality of their own education prcharter schools by improving the quality of their own education programs.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.

If such students are not representative of all students who attend charter schools, our analysis may not provide an accurate measure of the average effect of attending a charter school in these grades.

Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...

If it is possible to meet the needs of special education students at a public school serving low - income children in the Bronx, it can be done at other public schools and at charter schools, too.

Since the SRA appears to require that both traditional and charter school students be funded at the same dollar amount, we suspect the city will need better arguments if it wants to win in court.

If we use standard value - added methods to estimate the effects of attending a charter school for these students, the results do not match well with those of our lottery - based analysis.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

If the students continued to make such gains for each year they spent in charter schools (a big «if»), then the gap between the charter school students and their suburban counterparts would close entirely after about five years of schooIf the students continued to make such gains for each year they spent in charter schools (a big «if»), then the gap between the charter school students and their suburban counterparts would close entirely after about five years of schooif»), then the gap between the charter school students and their suburban counterparts would close entirely after about five years of school.

If one looks at the data for elementary and middle schools separately, however, it appears that in the higher grades, charters have a positive impact in reading on higher - income students relative to the district schools.

Only 18 percent of the public know that charters can not hold religious services, 19 percent that they can not charge tuition, 15 percent that students must be admitted by lottery (if the school is oversubscribed), and just 12 percent that, typically, charters receive less government funding per pupil than traditional public schools.

Evidence: most if not all the charter schools in Boston have waiting lists of students who would like to enroll.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

If the question of quality can't be answered yet, then what's the significance behind the growth in middle - class students attending charters?