Sentences with phrase «in regular public schools»

She found that students in more than 80 percent of the charter schools performed the same as, or worse than, students in regular public schools on mathematics tests.

But students who use vouchers or attend charter schools generally do no better academically than comparable students who remain in regular public schools.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

In virtually all instances, the charter students did worse than their counterparts in regular public schools.

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

He entered into a public school kindergarten class and has been in regular public schools ever since.

Because so many charter schools are specifically targeted to struggling students, a large percentage of their minority and poor students face obstacles greater than students of similar demographics in regular public schools.

I was amazed that teachers could actually treat you with respect and my classes are actually more challenging in a regular public school.

Similarly for students attending charter schools, those students generally do not have higher academic achievement than comparable students in regular public schools.

We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).

The AFT's press release, entitled «Charter School Scores Mostly Trail Achievement in Regular Public Schools Casts Doubt on Wisdom of Conversion to Charter School...» shows a pattern by the AFT to stop the expansion of the charter school movement.

The city would be required to first look for space in regular public schools where new charters — or those wishing to expand — could be co-located.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

To the extent that the latter argument has merit, the remedy seems obvious: amend the voucher law to make the amount higher, let's say equal to the per capita amount spent in regular public schools.

-- Why have millionaires favored funding with their largesse charter schools for the few while disinterested in regular public schools educating most students?

In regular public school schools, there were 182 kids expelled out of a student body of more than 353,000.

Bold and innovative schools like KIPP South Bronx Academy and brave private school leaders are venturing into areas rarely explored in regular public schools.

This was about a young girl who is being brought up by her uncle, and on starting school they find out that she is a genius, but Uncle and Grandmother fight in a custody battle over whether she should attend a special school to develop her talent or stay in a regular public school.

In terms of national averages, the difference between charter and district special - education enrollment is about 3 percentage points: according to the Government Accounting Office, roughly 11 percent of students enrolled in regular public schools were on special education plans in 2009 10, compared with 8 percent of charter school students.

Korsmo said the League of Education Voters wants to make the most impact it can by helping people who are focused on serving kids who haven't been served well in regular public schools.

They also suggest that KIPP might be doing well because it attracts the most motivated parents, to which KIPP teachers reply that their students had the same parents when they were doing terribly in regular public schools.

The next week, after confirming that there was a seat in the regular public school where her younger son is in prekindergarten, she withdrew her daughter and placed her in that school.

Howell disputed Murphy's claim, insisting that laws require the district to have sufficient resources to serve special education children in regular public schools.

According to recent court decisions in a California Appeals Court and a U.S. District Court in Hawaii, charters have the right to dismiss students in a manner that would be unconstitutional in a regular public school.

Now Cristofer has graduated to being in regular public school full time.

Warm results arrived this past winter in New York City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public schools.

By contrast, 13 percent of the 408,000 students in the regular public schools in Chicago are English - language learners, and 12 percent are in special education.

A New York Times story looks at Houston public schools experimenting to see if «techniques proven successful in high - performing urban charters can also help raise achievement in regular public schools.

The study, «Leveraging Local Innovation: The Case of Michigan's Charter Schools,» found that the schools have mostly seized on innovative practices already in use for years in regular public schools, rather than coming up with new ideas of their own.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildings.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter school fourth graders had lower scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test, than their counterparts in regular public schools.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

The charter concept is a promising one, but only if the charters commit to helping the kids who can't make it in regular public schools.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

A California State University, Los Angeles, study of California charters, released in March 2002, found that their test - score gains outpaced those of students in regular public schools.

Marcus Winters noted in City Journal in 2012,» [A] substantial body of research shows that at worst, students perform as well in private and charter schools as they would have in regular public schools, and at a lower cost.»

In other findings, it says that charter schools» students score significantly below those in regular public schools on achievement tests, and it faults American students»...

By comparison, the «Harlem - Scarsdale» gap only widens over the same span of grades for students who remain in regular public schools, according to the study.

Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.

Students enrolled in the charter school take the same level tests and state tests as similarly aged students in the regular public schools.

In many subject / grade combinations students in these subgroups in charter schools performed significantly better in 2011 than those in regular public schools.

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don't exist to replicate programs offered at high - income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.

First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.»