Sentences with phrase «large charter sectors»

Large charter sectors in states like Arizona, Colorado, and Florida gave traditional public schools a run for their money in the latest NAEP assessment.

Poor performance plagues schools in both DPS and the city's large charter sector.

The poster boy for PM, New Orleans, with its exceptional hurricane origin and large charter sector to advocate on its behalf, reverted to control by the previously reviled and inept locally elected school board in about a decade.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation, with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — over 10 percent of the state's public - school population (see Figure 2).

As my colleagues Bonnie O'Keefe, Kaitlin Pennington, and Sara Mead noted earlier this week in their slide deck analyzing the education landscape in Michigan, DeVos» home state of Michigan has one of the nation's largest charter sectors, with more than 40 charter school authorizers and 10 percent of its students attending charter schools.

How have districts with a large charter sector been impacted?

Not exact matches

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

In doubling down on his scrutiny of the charter sector's scores, de Blasio also directly attacked Success Academy, the city's largest charter network.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

Of the cities we examined, some have large and well - established charter sectors, like Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, while others have more emerging charter school sectors like Little Rock, San Antonio, and Tulsa.

In Los Angeles (23 percent), charters educate 150,000 students; that makes the city's charter sector the fifteenth - largest school system in America.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

But in the case of a large independent charter sector, the question is whether the entire system can ever be uniformly governed by anyone or anything.

Some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students, a reality that has profound implications for charter - goers, and for the charter sector writ large.

There is a huge amount of success to celebrate in this chart for multiple state charter sectors, most of which have either unusually large gains, or unusually high scores, or else unusually high scores and gains.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

Again, there is a great deal to like here - multiple charter sectors with large gains (MI, WI, GA, MD, TX) or high scores (CO, ID) or both high scores and gains.

Aside from variable performance of the sector at large, charters are not financially viable organizations in the long run.

Next let's look at statewide charter sectors - these are the states with charter sectors large enough to make the sample in both 2009 and 2017 in 8th grade reading:

Thus, a charter sector with a large number of new schools filled with students who have transferred in from other schools can create an «optical illusion» in a snapshot test score comparison.

Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce improvements in the charter sector.

As the charter sector has emerged as a durable element of American public education and grown large in some places, a handful of issues come into focus that previously got scant attention.

This makes his larger point all the more noteworthy: Osborne argues that despite DCPS's progress, the charter sector has still shown stronger performance.

Arizona provides an alternative model for how to create a large and successful charter school sector.

As the charter school sector has grown too large to ignore in some cities, districts and charters have sometimes begun collaborating or coordinating some efforts.

Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges of public oversight in cities with large charter school sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.

However, evidence suggests that the equalizing force of education is succeeding in large parts of the charter sector today.

When we have a very high - performing charter sector, I think there are insights for the larger system there.

It has a large charter school sector, like many American cities.

Once classified as an experiment, Gotham's charter sector is now the largest scaled, high - performing charter district in the country — filled with top, nationally - recognized organizations that support real success for the city's most vulnerable communities.

Both have solid records as urban education reformers, particularly with regard to charter schools, which are built on the belief that parents need sound education options and that the common good is well served by schools run under various auspices, not just by large public - sector bureaucracies.

The long - term health of the sector and the role charter schools play within the larger world of public education is far more important than rapid growth.

A deeper look at five large districts and charter schools as a sector in Idaho shows that districts did better when they have a lower concentration of poor and Latino students.

Washington State Charter Schools Association Conference April 27, 2018 to April 28, 2018 in Seatac, WA As the largest Washington state charter convening of the year, the WA Charters annual conference brings together everyone currently engaged in the state's growing sector in Washington and those seeking to learn more about innovative and excellent schools across ourCharter Schools Association Conference April 27, 2018 to April 28, 2018 in Seatac, WA As the largest Washington state charter convening of the year, the WA Charters annual conference brings together everyone currently engaged in the state's growing sector in Washington and those seeking to learn more about innovative and excellent schools across ourcharter convening of the year, the WA Charters annual conference brings together everyone currently engaged in the state's growing sector in Washington and those seeking to learn more about innovative and excellent schools across our state.

As the largest Washington state charter convening of the year, the WA Charters annual conference brings together everyone currently engaged in the state's growing sector in Washington and those seeking to learn more about innovative and excellent schools across our state.

For charter school students in New York City, the gains in Math are particularly notable — over nine percentage points in proficiency (the largest gain for any group or sector)-- and underscored by data showing that 15 of the 20 highest gainers among New York States» high - poverty schools were charters (most located in NYC).

So it's fairer to assess DC's performance against another set of NAEP scores that compares large urban school districts to one another — although those scores include results only from DC Public Schools, not the charter sector.

The charter sector also improved the performance of Hispanic students and students learning English as a second language, as well as students who qualify for special education services, although the gains were not as large.

One would think that after the scandals involving Connecticut's two large charter chains, Jumoke and Achievement First, Connecticut's education officials would finally exert some meaningful oversight over Connecticut's charter sector.

Meanwhile, Hispanic students are now the largest ethnic group in Florida charter schools, making up 38 percent of students in that sector in 2013 - 14, compared to 29 percent in district schools, redefinED reported in July.

Specifically, a case study on Boston highlights how restrictive charter school caps can impede the growth of a high - quality charter sector; a case study on Denver illustrates the potential and challenges of district - charter collaboration; a case study on New Orleans describes how a city can embrace chartering and alternative governing structures to bring about improved opportunities for students; and a case study on Washington, D.C. illustrates how a well - developed city ecosystem can support a large charter market share.

Strong Hispanic support for choice is clear in Florida, which has the nation's largest tax credit scholarship program and one of its biggest charter school sectors.

School space conflicts have also provided charter leaders with their biggest win over the mayor — the sector roundly defeated de Blasio in a months - long battle over space sharing agreements for New York's largest charter network, Success Academy, in early 2014.

Good as far as it goes, but this is also another call for Idaho's charter school sector and its allies to do more to grow and expand schools that serve larger numbers of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

For the past thirteen years Mr. Schmidt has operated his construction consulting firm, advising a variety of private and public sector clients including Ritz Carton on Central Park South, Carl Icahn Charter School, the US Federal Government and a number of small and large developers.