Sentences with phrase «in nearby public schools»

According to their marketing materials and testimony at legislative hearings, charter schools claim that their students score 10 to 30 percent better on master tests than do students in the nearby public schools.

The vast majority of gold standard studies show greater academic achievement for both students in choice programs and those in nearby public schools.

Nor does the fact that vouchers have not only improved education for the kids who have taken advantage of them, but also help those kids who remain in nearby public schools.

Not exact matches

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

Last spring when Cristy Nolton, executive chef of the Graveyard Tavern in Atlanta, prepared radish and cucumber salad in the classroom for first - and second - graders at nearby Burgess - Peterson Academy, the children cleaned their plates, said Betty Jackson, a physical education teacher and wellness coordinator at the public elementary school.

Jeff Mailman, a lifelong New Yorker and graduate of nearby Cardozo Law School, has spent most of his career in public service.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoSchool who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoschool walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

Those in support of the plan — including the current principal and PTA from the playground's adjoining school P.S. 166, elected officials, Community Board 7, parents and nearby residents — shared perspectives, bringing the commission up to speed on past debates and public meetings.

He soon moved to the private Moses Brown School, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coSchool, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coschool system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state college.

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

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In some school districts across the United States, public school buildings sit vacant while nearby charter schools searching for space are turned away.

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.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

The influence of a nearby charter school on traditional public schools in the area depends, in part, on the credibility of students» threats to switch to the charter.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

A straight - A student from a public high school on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he gave up a chance for an Ivy League education to take care of his sick mother and attend nearby Washington College, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 2006.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

When Jack started at Amherst, he was lucky enough to know what office hours were because, although he had attended public schools in Miami through 11th grade, he transferred his senior year to a nearby private school, Gulliver Prep, after a bad experience with a football coach who didn't value his academic skills.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

An additional finding described in the book is that — though there are exceptions — the average cost of private schools in the United States is about half the cost of nearby public schools.

David Figlio talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that public schools in Florida raise their performance when faced with the prospect of losing students to nearby private schools via the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

For elementary and secondary schools, the origin of online learning can be traced back to 1996, when two pioneers, the Concord Consortium, in Concord, Massachusetts, and nearby Hudson Public Schools, in Hudson, partnered and created the Virtual High School (VHS) pschools, the origin of online learning can be traced back to 1996, when two pioneers, the Concord Consortium, in Concord, Massachusetts, and nearby Hudson Public Schools, in Hudson, partnered and created the Virtual High School (VHS) pSchools, in Hudson, partnered and created the Virtual High School (VHS) project.

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

As a last grasp at hope, Darius enrolled in a new program called «Back on Track,» that joins the public Decatur High School with a nearby innovative private school, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha BurSchool with a nearby innovative private school, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha Burschool, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha Burdette.

Podcast: David Figlio talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that public schools in Florida raise their performance when faced with the prospect of losing students to nearby private schools via the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

Some proponents have predicted that the presence of charter schools would have a positive effect on nearby traditional public schools by exerting positive competitive pressure; some opponents have worried that charter schools would harm students in nearby traditional public schools by draining resources.

Second, the absence of effects on achievement in nearby traditional public schools suggests that the loss of students to charter schools is not having negative achievement effects on traditional public schools, but it also suggests that charter schools may not produce the hoped - for positive competitive effects in traditional public schools.

The researchers examined student achievement in traditional public schools that had charter schools nearby, and they found that the presence of the charter schools did not appear to help or harm student achievement in the traditional public schools.

Charter schools do not appear to help or harm student achievement in nearby traditional public schools.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

Think back to Topeka, Kan., in the 1950s, where seven - year old Linda Brown was denied the opportunity to attend a nearby public school because she was black.

The RAND team found no evidence that charter schools substantially affect achievement in nearby traditional public schools.

We demonstrate in a forthcoming Social Science Quarterly article that in advertisements for teaching positions, KIPP schools consistently emphasize public service incentives, serving kids, while nearby traditional public schools emphasize private incentives, namely salary and benefits.

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.

When researchers examined, for example, whether competition from private schools pressed nearby public schools to improve performance, they found that the test scores of students in these competing schools did indeed increase, albeit modestly.

In fact, 29 of the top 31 empirical studies on the topic find that freedom of school choice improves the performance of nearby public schools.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

Public education in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000 school districts across the nation — from the 1 million students in New York City's more than 1,500 public schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of JonePublic education in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000 school districts across the nation — from the 1 million students in New York City's more than 1,500 public schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of Jonepublic schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of Jonesport.

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools.

She also served as superintendent in Virginia's Montgomery County Public Schools when the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shootings occurred nearby.

The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

When we consider any student identified as having a disability in kindergarten as a special needs student, these students remained at their charter schools through the 2012 - 2013 school year at a higher rate than similar students at nearby traditional public schools.

So, we entered our daughter in three public school lotteries, including two that are part of the Grand Rapids Public School system, and I picked up an application for a nearby Christian spublic school lotteries, including two that are part of the Grand Rapids Public School system, and I picked up an application for a nearby Christian sschool lotteries, including two that are part of the Grand Rapids Public School system, and I picked up an application for a nearby Christian sPublic School system, and I picked up an application for a nearby Christian sSchool system, and I picked up an application for a nearby Christian schoolschool.

But principal / director Naomi Drewitz, who spent 28 years as a teacher and administrator in public schools in nearby East Windsor, can at least understand the animosity.

In addition, the analysis said, about a third of surveyed charters reported there is an underutilized public school building nearby.

The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its students from a public housing project.