Sentences with phrase «largest public charter»

A 10 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 20 of the country's largest public charter management systems.

Within the next several years, Uplift will grow our number of IB World continuum schools to 10 with separate feeder primary school campuses offering the PYP, making it the largest public charter district of IB schools.

Success Academy Charter Schools is the largest public charter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

We, two public school teachers in Los Angeles, made a choice to teach at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, the largest public charter network in Los Angeles.

A detailed look at what the Broad Foundation calls «the best - performing large public charter school system in America.»

The Broad Prize awards $ 250,000 to the large public charter school system that has demonstrated the best overall academic performance while closing achievement gaps and serving low - income students and students of color.

The $ 250,000 Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award that honors the large public charter school system serving low - income students and students of color that has the best overall performance in the country.

Not exact matches

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 out...

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.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), New York City is one of the biggest school districts in the country that enrolls a large number of students into charter sCharter Schools (NAPCS), New York City is one of the biggest school districts in the country that enrolls a large number of students into charter scharter schools.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

Jeffries stepped down before Success board chairman Dan Loeb's recent racial remarks about a black legislator set off a public relations crisis for New York City's largest charter network.

Moskowitz, 52, heads the Success Academy, the city's largest charter network and one that consistently outperforms the city's regular public schools.

Drafted by Councilor - at - Large Kathleen Joy, the charter change enables the council to order the planning commission to conduct a public hearing and to take a final vote on a proposed development, even if the commission deems the developer's application incomplete and unworthy of being advanced.

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.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

At the same time, students in both groups have access to a large number of public charter schools.

But even within the large Census Bureau — defined Core - Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) used as proxies for metropolitan areas, charters are still disproportionately located in low - SES (socioeconomic status) urban areas, while traditional public schools are dispersed throughout the entire CBSA.

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.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

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.

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.

Had the commission been able to develop as a real alternative to local authorization, larger numbers of charter schools could have been established, and that likely would have created a powerful political constituency in support of charter schools, capable of resisting jealous attacks from the public education establishment.

Of the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assoccharter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssocCharter Schools Association.

Support for charters among the public at large has remained relatively stable since 2008, ebbing slightly to 39 percent in 2009 before rebounding to 44 percent in 2010.

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).

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

On the one side, Ednext shows that a large portion of the public has no strong opinions about charter schools.

The charter movement, though well launched, Hill argues, is not likely to become a much larger factor in American public education without serious efforts to level the playing field.

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?

• There were some turnover differences between principals at traditional public schools and charter schools, but the discrepancy is not as large as some may think.

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?

Compared with traditional public schools, charter schools in North Carolina enrolled a larger percentage of black students and lower percentages of Hispanic and white students.

The study — part of a larger report put out by the National Charter School Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are Charter School Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are charter school parents are just...

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.

Why are there large gaps between the percentages of students classified as disabled in charter and traditional public schools?

According to Education Next's 2015 poll, supporters of charters outnumber opponents by a two - to - one margin, both among the public at large and in minority communities.

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.

Parker Baxter, scholar in residence at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, is co-author, with Todd Ely and Paul Teske, of «A Bigger Slice of the Money Pie,» on how charter schools in Colorado and Florida have gained a larger share of local tax dollars.

The authors of the new study modified the analysis conducted by the CRP so that the percentage of students in segregated charter schools in just the central city would be compared to the percentage of students in segregated traditional public schools within the same central city for 8 large metropolitan areas.

In several respects, parents in communities with a charter presence are only marginally more knowledgeable than the public at large.

All over the nation, in cities large and small, charter schools are growing steadily and serving a greater and greater share of public school students.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

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.

Charter schools in Colorado have historically enjoyed broad bipartisan support in the legislature and are embraced by some school districts, most notably the state's largest, Denver Public Schools.

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.