Sentences with phrase «in nearby districts»

The results indicate that charter schools tend to increase or, at the very least, do not harm the performance of at - risk student populations in nearby district schools.

They outscore their peers in nearby district schools in both math and ELA tests.

In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average charter - school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in nearby district schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a charter school.

At the same time in a nearby district, Reverend Peter Kainwo, a pastor at Mission for Salone, has been visiting mosques during Friday prayers with the same purpose.

Seven are taking on Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County, while eight want to unseat Republican Dana Rohrbacher in a nearby district.

Success Academy received about 850 applications from parents who live in School District 14 and roughly 550 applications from parents who live in nearby District 16, the spokesman added.

About half of the teachers who resign accept jobs in nearby districts, often leaving Brockton officials scrambling to find replacements.

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.

Schools may only give preference to siblings of current students or students enrolled in nearby district schools that have received a «D» or «F» grade.

The founder and principal, Zeke Vanderhoek, is a 38 - year - old Yale University graduate who taught in a nearby district school and launched a tutoring company.

To assess the school's impact, the study identified a set of children who stayed in nearby district schools and closely resembled the charter students in family income, race, neighborhood and fourth - grade test records.

The study found The Equity Project's students had similar academic backgrounds to children in nearby district schools, had about the same attrition rate and none was expelled.

«When you talk about teacher leadership, some people don't really get it — they think, these are people who just want to be administrators,» Renae Bryant, who recently moved to take a position as a coordinator for English - language - learner services in a nearby district.

At a recent presentation, members of the Dallas ISD board of trustees were told the average salary of new teachers in nearby districts was $ 52,125 while the average salary for teachers with 24 years of experience in those districts was $ 61,156.

Having previously campaigned against a similar mine in another nearby district, he was aware of how environmentally destructive the project would be.

In terms of prior achievement, KIPP schools generally admit students who are disadvantaged in ways similar to their peers in nearby district schools.

Independent study charters no longer can run satellite centers for 38,000 students in nearby districts.

Black and Hispanic enrollments were often higher than in nearby district schools.

Those schools include public charter schools, magnet schools, and other types of options both within districts and in nearby districts.

Families choose from among charter schools, magnet schools, district schools, and schools in nearby districts.

For example, according to ECS, students in one district may receive up to three times more learning and developmental opportunities than those in a nearby district.