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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboCharter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collabocharter networks, praised the collaboration.

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 addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

There are several possible explanations for the effects of charter schools being larger in math than in reading.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

There is a large charter school literature than can inform the methods for this research, and there is some magnet literature as well.

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

The average tenure of teachers at Partnership Schools is more than ten years, over four times that of some the larger charter management organizations in the city.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

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).

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

But despite such a large pool of hopefuls, the rate of charter school growth has fallen steadily since 2014, to less than 2 percent in 2016.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

Parents who live near a charter school are more supportive of charters than the public at large (and know more about how charters work).

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

Camden had the largest per - pupil funding gap in our study, with charter schools students receiving 45 %, or $ 14,771, less per pupil than TPS students.

And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

In less than four years, White Hat Ventures LLC, the company Mr. Brennan founded to operate charter schools, has become Ohio's largest for - profit education management company.

Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.

A large part (80 percent) of the growth in this gap over time is that charter schools are less likely than district schools to classify students as in need of special education services and more likely to declassify them....

CREDO found that non-profit schools made much larger test gains than for - profit ones, prompting AFT president Randi Weingarten to thunder «this CREDO study confirms that for - profit charter and virtual schools serve the interests of corporations» rather than kids.

To get the center established, we raised more than $ 40 million from several large donors — the Robin Hood Foundation and philanthropists Julian Robertson and Joe and Carol Reich — all of whom remained strong, dedicated, and generous charter school backers, and each designated a representative to serve on the new center's board.

These effects are all larger than what would have been predicted based on the same students» test - score gains, leading the researchers to conclude that «high achieving charter schools alter more than cognitive ability.»

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.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

Minnesota and Massachusetts charter schools enroll a larger percentage of LEP students than the average of other public schools in their states.

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).

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

Conceivably, the market strategies of charter schools and large CMOs, rather than the needs of families and students, could drive the market, leading to more imitation and less diversity.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

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).

With more than 160 schools across the United States, KIPP is one of the largest national charter networks.

With 25 schools serving 12,500 students, Alliance is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 % of all California school districts, and successfully closing the achievement gap at scale...

On the other hand, the observational estimates for charter schools that contribute to the lottery study are larger than the observational estimates for other charter schools (though the latter are still positive and significantly different from 0).

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

Nationally, charter schools are educating more than 2.3 million students in the 2012 - 13 school year, 275,000 more than last year, the largest single - year jump since the movement began 20 years ago, according to the National Alliance for Charter Scharter schools are educating more than 2.3 million students in the 2012 - 13 school year, 275,000 more than last year, the largest single - year jump since the movement began 20 years ago, according to the National Alliance for Charter Sschools are educating more than 2.3 million students in the 2012 - 13 school year, 275,000 more than last year, the largest single - year jump since the movement began 20 years ago, according to the National Alliance for Charter SCharter SchoolsSchools.

New York State Resource and Computer Training Centers are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more than 125 Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675 public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-public and charter schools.